Afghan demonstrators gather in Kabul on March 6 to protest the killing of nine boys, ranging from 9 to 15 years old, by a NATO air raid in the northeastern province of Kunar. Hundreds poured into the streets of the capital, some chanting "Death to America." The attack was "one of the war's worst cases of mistaken killings by foreign-led forces," according to the New York Times. Petraeus issued a personal apology for the killings in a NATO statement. Afghan President Hamid Karzai rejected Petraeus's apology for the killing of the nine children, saying that the Afghan people " are tired of these incidents and excuses, and condemnations cannot relieve their pain."
Two Afghan women and a man watch a patrol of female Marines in Helmand province. The female Marines, who are part of a Female Engagement Team, work in four- and five-member units that accompany male Marines on patrol and try to win over rural Afghan women who are culturally inaccessible to foreign men.
