In this photograph taken on March 28 a member of the anti-Taliban "Sangorians" militia fires a heavy machine gun during an ongoing fight with Taliban...
In this photograph taken on March 25, 2021 an Afghan Commandos soldier stands guard as an Afghan Air Force Black Hawk helicopter takes off at the...
Security personnel and onlookers stand at the site of a blast along the roadside in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province on November 12,...
Marines board a C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft headed to Kandahar as British and US forces withdraw from the Camp Bastion-Leatherneck...
In this picture taken on March 28 women wait for their turn at a mobile clinic for women and children set up at the residence of a local elder in...
In this photograph taken on March 28 a member of the anti-Taliban "Sangorians" militia sits outside an outpost in the village of Mukhtar on the...
Policeman stands guard at a road checkpoint as an internally displaced family flees from the ongoing fighting between Afghan security forces and...
In this photograph taken on August 27, 2017 Afghan Commandos take positions during a combat training exercise at the Shorab Military Camp in Lashkar...
Royal Air Force Sgt. Alison Moore of the 15th Psychological Operations Group records a radio message with an Afghan interpreter at the British army...
Army convoy drives on April 4, 2006 near Lashkar Gah in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. One U.S. Soldier and one American DynCorp...
In this picture taken on March 28 baby Bilal - who suffers from severe malnutrition, pneumonia and cleft lip - rests next to his mother Rozia , who...
In this photograph taken on March 28 a member of the anti-Taliban "Sangorians" militia holds empty cartridges during an ongoing fight with Taliban...
In this photograph taken on March 28 members of the anti-Taliban "Sangorians" militia take position during an ongoing fight with Taliban insurgents...
Young Afghan girls giggle as a British soldier from 16 Air Assault Brigade walks past during a patrol in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, 16 May 2006....
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales looks through the window of a British military helicopter enroute to Lashkar Gah on March 25, 2010 in Afghanistan....
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales looks through the window of a British military helicopter enroute to Lashkar Gah on March 25, 2010 in Afghanistan....
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales looks through the window of a British military helicopter enroute to Lashkar Gah on March 25, 2010 in Afghanistan....
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is reflected in a plaque commemorating soldiers from Task Force Helmand who lost their lives, at Laskar Gah Base,...
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown watches a display at the Helmand police training centre, March 6, 2010 in Lashkar Gah, southern Afghanistan....
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks to soldiers during a visit to the Shawqat forward operating base, March 6, 2010 in Lashkar Gah, southern...
This picture taken on October 8, 2017 shows member of the United Nations Children's Fund distributing pens and bags to Afghan school boys at a school...
In this photograph taken on August 28, 2017 a wounded Afghan National Army soldier recovers in a ward after receiving treatment in an Afghan military...
In this photograph taken on August 28, 2017 a wounded Afghan National Army soldier recovers in a ward after receiving treatment in an Afghan military...
In this photograph taken on August 28 an Afghan National Army soldier assists a wounded colleague as they walk along a corridor in Afghan military...
In this photograph taken on August 27, 2017 Afghan Commandos transport a colleague feigning an injury on a stretcher as they participate in a combat...
In this photograph taken on August 27, 2017 Afghan Commandos carry a colleague simulating an injury during a combat training exercise at Shorab...
In this photograph taken on August 27, 2017 Afghan Commandos participate in a combat training exercise at Shorab Military Camp in Lashkar Gah in...
In this photograph taken on August 28 an Afghan National Army soldier holds a plastic gun while clearing a road during a training exercise to deal...
The bodies of Afghans allegedly killed in an air strike are shown in Lashkar Gah in the province of Helmand south of Kabul on October 16, 2008. At...
British Army Reverend Lt.Col. Nicholas Cook, Chaplain to the Forces from the Royal Army Chaplains Department celebrate the Sunday Mass in the tent...
British soldier gives lessons to the Afghan National Police at the British army base Task Force Helmand Headquarter on July 26, 2008 in Lashkar Gah,...
British army officers and soldiers work in the Operation Room at the British army base Task Force Helmand Headquarter on July 25, 2008 in Lashkar...
Maps are checked as British army officers and soldiers work at the British army base Task Force Helmand Headquarter on July 25, 2008 in Lashkar Gah,...
Woman in a burqa carries a child past an armed civilian contractor from the private company "Armored Group" in the city hospital during a Provincial...
Helicopter from the American security contractor DynCorp flies over an opium poppy field on April 1, 2006 near Lashkar Gah in the Helmand province of...
British soldier inspects an opium plant on March 24, 2006 near Lashkar Gah in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. European cities risk...
Army Col. Paul Calbos walks through an opium poppy field on April 1, 2006 near Lashkar Gah in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. European...
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: In this file photograph dated 17 May 2006, British soldiers from 21 Air Assault Battery Royal Artillery, who are providing...
In this handout Image from the British MOD Lance Corporal Charlie Bates poses with his VS dog Jamie on July 2, 2006 in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan. Arms...
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: - File picture taken 13 May 2006 showing British soldiers from the 16 Air Assault Brigade, on foot and using Snatch Land...
Police trainer for the American security contractor DynCorp stands guard as the provincial governor Mohammed Daoud and a new police commander pass by...
Abdullah, age 8, holds a soccer ball as a police trainer for the American security contracter DynCorp stands by at a school June 8, 2006 in Lashkar...
British army soldier stands guard while his unit stopped on patrol June 8, 2006 in Lashkar Gah in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. The...
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: British soldiers from 21 Air Assault Battery Royal Artillery, who are providing the Helmand Task Force Provincial...
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: British soldiers from 21 Air Assault Battery Royal Artillery, who are providing the Helmand Task Force Provincial...
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: British soldiers from the Bomb Squad, Helmand Task Force, load, move and destroy unexploded ordnance at the Provincial...
Afghan men carry a victim of a powerful car bomb in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, on June 22, 2017. Twenty people were killed June 22...
Soldier drives a bus ahead of handover ceremony at Leatherneck Camp in Lashkar Gah in the Afghan province of Helmand on April 29, 2017. US Marines...
Soldier holds the national flag ahead of a handover ceremony at Leatherneck Camp in Lashkar Gah in the Afghan province of Helmand on April 29, 2017....
This photograph taken on October 6, 2016 shows Bashir, a relative of a "bacha bazi" victim, a teenage boy, during an interview with AFP in Lashkar...
Afghan relatives grieve as they gather outside of the Ali Abad hospital, after gunmen targeted Shiite Muslim pilgrims inside of the Kart-e-Sakhi...
An Afghan wounded girl receives treatment at the Ali Abad hospital after an attack by gunmen inside the Kart-e- Sakhi shrine in Kabul on October 11,...
In this photograph taken on October 6, 2016 Afghan men offer prayers in Lashkar Gah of Helmand province.
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: British soldiers from the 21 Air Assault Battery Royal Artillery, who are providing the Helmand Task Force Provincial...
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: British soldiers from the 21 Air Assault Battery Royal Artillery, who are providing the Helmand Task Force Provincial...
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: Score marks on the sides of dried out poppy bulbs are evidence of this years poppy harvest in Lashkar Gah, Helmand...
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: A British soldier from 16 Air Assault Brigade walks past three women wearing burkas during a foot patrol in Lashkar Gah,...
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: A British soldier from 16 Air Assault Brigade shakes hands with a young Afghan boy during a foot patrol in Lashkar Gah,...
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: British soldiers unload passengers and supplies from a Chinook helicopter at the Provincial Reconstruction Team base at...
Inflight, AFGHANISTAN: A British machine-gunner mans his gun onboard a Chinook helicopter after taking off from Kandahar Airbase, 01 May 2006, for a...