Images from Afghanistan: May 2011

Continued photo coverage of life and war in Afghanistan.

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May 30, 2011

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, and Minister of Defense Peter MacKay look out from a bunker during a visit to a forward operating base in the district of Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan.

Sean Kilpatrick / AP

May 30, 2011

Afghans travel on a local transport bus in Kabul.

PUNIT PARANJPE / AFP/Getty Images

May 29, 2011

U.S. Marines walk in their camp as smokes and dust rise from a controlled explosion near the military base Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.

MASSOUD HOSSAINI / AFP/Getty Images

May 29, 2011

U.S. soldiers holds candles to mark Memorial Day at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' headquarters in Kabul.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

May 28, 2011

Army soldiers move a transfer casket containing the remains of Staff Sgt. Edward D. Mills, Jr., of New Castle, Pa., at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

Luis Alvarez / AP

May 28, 2011

An Afghan youth sharpens a pair of scissors at a roadside shop in Kabul.

PUNIT PARANJPE / AFP/Getty Images

May 20, 2011

Afghan men sit on the balcony of a building in Kabul.

Punit Paranjpe / AFP/Getty Images

May 22, 2011

People sit outside of their rooms to breathe fresh air in Kabul.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

May 20, 2011

An Afghan man squats on the pavement while talking on a phone as others travel past on a street in Kabul.

Punit Paranjpe / AFP/Getty Images

May 22, 2011

An Afghan woman holds her baby as she walks at the market in Kabul.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

May 20, 2011

An Afghan photographer at his temporary stall waits for customers outside the Shah-Do Shamshira mosque in Kabul.

Mustafa Quraishi / AP

May 23, 2011

Afghan women pick strawberries at the Badam Bagh farm in Kabul. The women make about $5 per day working at the farm, which grows 22 kinds of fruits and vegetables.

Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

May 22, 2011

An Afghan policeman stands guard at the scene of an explosion in Kandahar, where two police officers suffered injuries when a motorcycle laden with explosives detonated as they tried to disarm it.

Allauddin Khan / AP

May 24, 2011

An Afghan man attends to his wounded brother at a hospital after a roadside bomb blast in Panjwai district of Kandahar. Ten Afghan construction workers were killed and 28 wounded when their truck hit a roadside bomb in Panjwai.

Ahmad Nadeem / Reuters

May 23, 2011

An Afghan solder inspects the walls marked by shrapnel at the scene of a suicide attack in Alingar, Laghman province, east of Kabul. A suicide bomber attacked a gathering of tribal leaders in eastern Laghman province, killing four tribal elders and wounding 14 others who were having lunch at a hotel.

Rahmat Gul / AP

May 23, 2011

U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion 9th Marines Kodiak Company rest after an early morning operation at Block 9 military camp in Marja.

Massoud Hossaini / AFP/Getty Images

May 23, 2011

U.S. Marines arrested 12 suspects during an operation in Shinghazak area, south of Marja.

Massoud Hossaini / AFP/Getty Images

May 15, 2011

Afghan shepherd Asadullah Daad Mohammad, 12, listens to his father, Daad Mohammad Pir Mohammad, before standing on his artificial legs for the first time after he was brought to the International Committee of the Red Cross Orthopedic Center in Kabul about 10 days before. Asadullah lost his legs, left eye and a finger, most likely after he stepped on a land mine, while he was out with his goats and sheep in Paktia province, south of Kabul, about five months ago.

Kamran Jebreili / AP

May 15, 2011

U.S. Marines carry Lance Cpl. Jerome Hanley of Massachusetts, who was wounded in an insurgent attack, to a waiting U.S. Army medevac helicopter at a "hot" landing zone under fire north of Sangin, in southern Aghanistan's Helmand province.

Kevin Frayer / AP

May 15, 2011

A U.S. Navy combat critical care nurse attends to an Afghan soldier suffering from stab wounds on a medevac helicopter in southern Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province.

Kevin Frayer / AP

May 3, 2011

An Afghani reads a local newspaper in Kabul. The headline reads: "Once upon a time Osama! Game of Osama is finished." Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, was slain in his hideout in Pakistan early Monday in a firefight with U.S. forces, ending a manhunt that spanned a decade.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

May 3, 2011

An Afghan man reads a newspaper article on Osama bin Laden's death, at a roadside tea shop in Kabul.

Ahmad Masood / Reuters

May 2, 2011

Afghan men at a restaurant in Kabul watch television coverage announcing the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

May 3, 2011

An Afghan police officer stands guard during a transfer-of-authority ceremony at Jalalabad Airfield in Nangahar province. The 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division is being replaced by the 3rd Brigade 25th Infantry Division after a year-long deployment in the volatile eastern region of the country.

Lucas Jackson / Reuters

May 3, 2011

An Afghan police officer in Kabul stands guard at a checkpoint after the death of Osama bin Laden.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

May 1, 2011

An Afghan laborer throws a sack of cement onto a truck in Kabul on International Labor Day.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

May 1, 2011

A boy with an Afghan flag on his bicycle ferries a young female passenger down a street in Kabul.

Lucas Jackson

May 1, 2011

An Afghan carpenter takes tea as he waits to be hired in Kabul on International Labor Day.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

May 2, 2011

A U.S soldier from the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade sleeps in front of a television reporting on the death of Osama bin Laden at Bagram Air Base in Kabul.

Lucas Jackson / Reuters

May 8, 2011

An elderly Afghan man cooks kebab at a restaurant in Kabul.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

May 9, 2011

Afghan women feed pigeons in front of the Imam Ali shrine in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

Stringer / Reuters

May 8, 2011

U.S. Gen. David H. Petraeus, center, commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) meets with U.S. troops in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan.

Heidi Vogt / AP

May 9, 2011

Soldiers from the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade salute as they prepare to be released to their families and friends at their homecoming ceremony with fellow soldiers from the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade at Abrams Physical Fitness Center at Fort Hood. Monday's flight of soldiers marks the first wave returning from Afghanistan to Fort Hood in Texas with the brigade.

Catrina Rawson / AP

May 5, 2011

The body of Major Philip D. Ambard is brought down the steps of the Cadet Chapel at the United States Air Force Academy after a funeral in Colorado. Ambard, a professor at the academy, was killed in the line of duty in Kabul.

Jerilee Bennett / AP

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