Photo from Afghanistan for December 2011 of the year
During 2010, the NATO 711 fighters died in Afghanistan, and 2011 - in 565. This is the most significant reduction in mortality compared with the previous year in ten years of war. NATO troops were crucial in the war, and this fact is increasingly worrying Afghans, as the United States and other countries are accelerating the planned withdrawal of troops. This year, 23000 American soldiers must leave the country, and a full withdrawal is planned for 2014 year. So far, the main efforts of the US military are focused on training the Afghan army and solving the problem of returning military equipment to their homeland with a total value of 30 billions of dollars.
We offer you a selection of photographs illustrating the events in Afghanistan over the past month.
1. Corporal James Fernandez from the company of the Alpha 9 th engineer battalion uses an electric saw to remove the fence at the Saenz fire base in Helmand province, December 13 2011 of the year. In December, 9 Engineer held a dismantling of several patrol bases. (USMC / Cl. Bryan Nygaard)
2. The Kapisa Reconstruction Assistance Team is preparing to be deployed in the Atterbury camp in Afghanistan, December 16 2011. It will be the first unit to be trained on a new combat simulator, designed specifically to simulate explosive situations on improvised explosive devices. (US Army / Staff Sgt. Matthew Scotten)
3. Afghans are in line for an appointment with local authorities in Pul-e-Alam, Logar province, November 28 2011. (Reuters / Umit Bektas)
4. Firefighters extinguish NATO tank trucks and trucks after the attack in Quetta, Pakistan, December 8, 2011. As a result of a rocket attack, 20 cars burned down. (Banaras Khan / AFP / Getty Images)
5. The air is filled with splashes of blood - 3 December 2011, in Kabul, in honor of the beginning of Muharram, a procession took place, during which Shiites engaged in self-flagellation. Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar; throughout the Islamic world, its first ten days are dedicated to grief about the martyr Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. (Reuters / Ahmad Masood)
6. Afghan Shiites wash knives and rinse clothes after self-flagellation in Kabul, December 3 2011. (AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq)
7. Marines from the 1 Squadron of unmanned aerial vehicles of the MP Corps in Afghanistan 17 December 2011 carried out the delivery of cargo to the combat zone using an unmanned helicopter. The helicopter transported more than one and a half tons of food and supplies from the Dwyer camp to Payne's outpost. The flight took about one and a half hours. (USMC / Cl. Justin M. Boling)
8. French soldiers from the 1 Infantry Regiment on the operational base Niireb in Torah, Province of Surobi, December 31 2011. (Joel Saget / AFP / Getty Images)
9. Relatives of Staff Sergeant Vincent Bell at a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, December 27 2011. Bell died in the service in Afghanistan. (AP Photo / Susan Walsh)
10. Herat Citadel, December 3 2011 of the year. The US Embassy in Afghanistan has allocated one billion dollars for the reconstruction of the fortress. (Aref Karimi / AFP / Getty Images)
11. A few moments after the suicide bombing at a Shia meeting in Kabul. December 6 2011 of the year. The bomber blew up at a Shiite temple, where hundreds of people gathered to celebrate Ashura. Killed 20 people. (Reuters / Najibullah Musafer)
12. The 12-year-old girl Tarana is surrounded by the corpses of men, women and children who have just been killed by a suicide bomber, Kabul, December 6 2011 of the year. “When I was able to get up, there were corpses everywhere, everything was covered in blood, and I was very, very scared,” the girl said. Her name means "melody" in translation. From 17, her relatives who went to Ashura’s holiday have killed seven, including Shoaib’s seven-year-old brother. A total of 70 people died from the explosion. Similar incidents in Iraq and Pakistan have caused an escalation of conflicts between Sunnis and Shiites. (Massoud Hossaini / AFP / Getty Images)
13. The junior sergeant of the US Army Devon Box from company B of the 7 th battalion of the 158 th aviation regiment admires the Afghan landscape while sitting on the ramp of the CH-47D Chinook helicopter. The second Chinook is visible in the distance. Helicopters flew from Kabul to Jalalabad 17 December 2011. (US Army / Spc. Ken Scar)
14. UH-1Y "Huey" US Marine Corps lands in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, December 25 2011. At Christmas, helicopters delivered tons of packages to marines at outposts throughout Afghanistan. (USMC)
15. A villager crosses the bridge at Kasamabad to attend a school in the village of Baghban in Daikundi province, December 10 of 2011. The Coalition forces are planning to improve the condition of the bridge in order to make it easier for students to go to school. (US Navy / Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Leistikow)
16. Grover, the character of "Sesame Streets" with Afghans near the French Cultural Center in Kabul. November 30 2011 of the year. Now children in Afghanistan can begin their preschool education with the help of the TV show "Sesame Street". (Reuters / Omar Sobhani)
17. Aerial view of the Hindu Kush mountain range, 1 January, 2012 year. (Joel Saget / AFP / Getty Images)
18. Afghan special forces guard four captured Taliban in Herat, December 29 2011. Taliban fighters were captured during the operation of the Afghan National Army. (Aref Karimi / AFP / Getty Images)
19. The children look at the German fighter of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), who smokes on a halt during a patrol in the village of Khel in Chahar Dara District, December 16 2011. (Reuters / Thomas Peter)
20. Pakistani Taliban fighters conduct training in the southern Waziristan region. Associated Press reporter Ishtak Mahsud spent six days with the Taliban near the Afghan border. (AP Photo / Ishtiaq Mahsud)
21. Pakistani Taliban fighters conduct exercises in the southern Waziristan region. (AP Photo / Ishtiaq Mahsud)
22. Travis Bird, creator of The Secret Cinema, is showing a film in one of the cellars of Kabul, 8 December 2011. "Secret Cinema" for fans of British cinema held its first meeting outside the UK. (Reuters / Ahmad Masood)
23. An Afghan Elvis named Farhad Dariya, the UN Goodwill Ambassador, performs at a concert for Afghan women and girls at Amani School in Kabul, November 24 2011 of the year. Darius, nicknamed the Afghan Elvis, is perhaps the only man in the country who can turn the audience in modest hijabs into a heated crowd of screaming and whistling female fans. (Massoud Hossaini / AFP / Getty Images)
24. Women and girls at the concert of the singer Farhad Daria 24 November 2011 of the year. In a country where music was banned a decade ago, and the rights of women are restricted by the Taliban, Darius is considered an icon. The concert was held in secret because the venue could have been attacked by extremists. (Massoud Hossaini / AFP / Getty Images)
25. An American soldier doubles over from pain in a medical helicopter after being injured in a self-made bomb explosion in Logar province, 21 November 2011. (Reuters / Umit Bektas)
26. A boy rides a skateboard on Naderhan Hill in Kabul, November 14 2011 of the year. (AP Photo / Ahmad Jamshid)
27. Cadet West Point Lt. Michael Norris embraces his mother Terry at the coffin of Private First Class Cody Norris at his funeral in La Porte, Texas, 21 on November 2011 of the year. 20-year-old Cody Norris died on November 9 in Kandahar province when his car came under fire from militants. (AP Photo / Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)
28. F-15E US Air Force Strike Eagle takes off from Bagram airfield, December 21 2011. (USAF / Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht)
29. Tarana Akbari and her mother Bibi Khava at her home in Kabul, December 10 2011. A few days before, Tarana had miraculously survived the suicide bombing of a mosque. (Massoud Hossaini / AFP / Getty Images)
30. Corporal Marines Burns Britt loaded into the helicopter of the operational group "Dust Off", the company of Charlie 214 th Aviation Regiment. Britt was injured in a handicraft landmine explosion in Sangin, Helmand Province. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)
31. Marine Corp. Burns Britt is looking at photos taken right after his injury, Hunter Holmes Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. Britt undergoes a lengthy recovery procedure after a large fragment has cut his artery around his neck and caused partial paralysis. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)
32. The marines of the 1 Frontier Support Group helped the Afghan border guards and the police to conduct Operation Eagle Hunt. (USMC / Cl. Marco Mancha)
33. Afghan policemen give a demonstration during the graduation ceremony at the police training center in Herat, December 22 2011. At the end of the eight-week course from the Ansar 606 training center, 500 police officers graduated (Aref Karimi / AFP / Getty Images)
34. The 225-kilogram bomb detonated by air support aircraft to the firing position of militants in Gelan district, Ganzi province, 27 December 2011 of the year. The battle began in (US Army / Spc. Michael Creech)
35. Brandy and Levi Hoyle next to a photo of their father and husband Andy in Coquilla, Oregon, December 23 2011. While the real Andy is in Afghanistan, the "flat Andy" goes everywhere with his family and has already become a famous person. (AP Photo / The World, Lou Sennick)
36. Afghan boys play soccer in Kabul, December 21 2011. Football is one of the most popular games in Afghanistan, and for the most part it is played on dusty sand grounds. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)
37. The boots of the Afghan National Army soldier on the floor of the infirmary of the forward operational base Schenk in the province of Logar, November 12 2011. (Reuters / Umit Bektas)
38. From left to right: Elaine Diemer, Jenel Costner and Maritz Batallas help Ann Mary Tebs try on a dress during Operation Wedding Dress at a wedding boutique in Gastonia, North Carolina, 20 November 2011 of the year. Tebs, a student at the University of North Carolina, is engaged to a junior sergeant Peter Richards serving in Afghanistan. (AP Photo / The Gaston Gazette, Ben Goff)
39. Technician Sergeant Mike Morris dressed as Santa Claus loads a pallet with barrels aboard the C-17 aircraft. Globemaster III, 23 December 2011 of the year. (USAF / Staff Sgt. Nathanael Callon)
40. Fifteen-year-old Afghan girl Sugar Gul looks at Minister Husn Banu Gazanfar (right) in Kabul hospital, December 31 2011. The police rescued a girl who was beaten and kept under lock and key for nearly five months by her own relatives, who forced her into prostitution. The girl was found in the basement of her husband's house in the province of Baghlan 26 on December 2011 of the year after her parents reported to the police that she was missing. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)
41. Sergeant of the Afghan National Army Shah Baaz uses a metal detector under the supervision of the Marine Corps Junior Corporal group commander Zachariah Fischer from the 3 platoon of the India company 3 X battalion of the 3 MP regiment, December 30 2011 of the year. (USMC / Cpl. Reece Lodder)
42. Notes on the tree at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, December 16 2011. On the site number 60 in this cemetery are soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried. Headquarters Sergeant Matthew West, who is mentioned on the star, began his second year of service as a sapper in Afghanistan in July 2010, and died a month later in an explosion with four more servicemen. In the US, he left a wife and three children. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
We offer you a selection of photographs illustrating the events in Afghanistan over the past month.
1. Corporal James Fernandez from the company of the Alpha 9 th engineer battalion uses an electric saw to remove the fence at the Saenz fire base in Helmand province, December 13 2011 of the year. In December, 9 Engineer held a dismantling of several patrol bases. (USMC / Cl. Bryan Nygaard)
2. The Kapisa Reconstruction Assistance Team is preparing to be deployed in the Atterbury camp in Afghanistan, December 16 2011. It will be the first unit to be trained on a new combat simulator, designed specifically to simulate explosive situations on improvised explosive devices. (US Army / Staff Sgt. Matthew Scotten)
3. Afghans are in line for an appointment with local authorities in Pul-e-Alam, Logar province, November 28 2011. (Reuters / Umit Bektas)
4. Firefighters extinguish NATO tank trucks and trucks after the attack in Quetta, Pakistan, December 8, 2011. As a result of a rocket attack, 20 cars burned down. (Banaras Khan / AFP / Getty Images)
5. The air is filled with splashes of blood - 3 December 2011, in Kabul, in honor of the beginning of Muharram, a procession took place, during which Shiites engaged in self-flagellation. Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar; throughout the Islamic world, its first ten days are dedicated to grief about the martyr Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. (Reuters / Ahmad Masood)
6. Afghan Shiites wash knives and rinse clothes after self-flagellation in Kabul, December 3 2011. (AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq)
7. Marines from the 1 Squadron of unmanned aerial vehicles of the MP Corps in Afghanistan 17 December 2011 carried out the delivery of cargo to the combat zone using an unmanned helicopter. The helicopter transported more than one and a half tons of food and supplies from the Dwyer camp to Payne's outpost. The flight took about one and a half hours. (USMC / Cl. Justin M. Boling)
8. French soldiers from the 1 Infantry Regiment on the operational base Niireb in Torah, Province of Surobi, December 31 2011. (Joel Saget / AFP / Getty Images)
9. Relatives of Staff Sergeant Vincent Bell at a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, December 27 2011. Bell died in the service in Afghanistan. (AP Photo / Susan Walsh)
10. Herat Citadel, December 3 2011 of the year. The US Embassy in Afghanistan has allocated one billion dollars for the reconstruction of the fortress. (Aref Karimi / AFP / Getty Images)
11. A few moments after the suicide bombing at a Shia meeting in Kabul. December 6 2011 of the year. The bomber blew up at a Shiite temple, where hundreds of people gathered to celebrate Ashura. Killed 20 people. (Reuters / Najibullah Musafer)
12. The 12-year-old girl Tarana is surrounded by the corpses of men, women and children who have just been killed by a suicide bomber, Kabul, December 6 2011 of the year. “When I was able to get up, there were corpses everywhere, everything was covered in blood, and I was very, very scared,” the girl said. Her name means "melody" in translation. From 17, her relatives who went to Ashura’s holiday have killed seven, including Shoaib’s seven-year-old brother. A total of 70 people died from the explosion. Similar incidents in Iraq and Pakistan have caused an escalation of conflicts between Sunnis and Shiites. (Massoud Hossaini / AFP / Getty Images)
13. The junior sergeant of the US Army Devon Box from company B of the 7 th battalion of the 158 th aviation regiment admires the Afghan landscape while sitting on the ramp of the CH-47D Chinook helicopter. The second Chinook is visible in the distance. Helicopters flew from Kabul to Jalalabad 17 December 2011. (US Army / Spc. Ken Scar)
14. UH-1Y "Huey" US Marine Corps lands in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, December 25 2011. At Christmas, helicopters delivered tons of packages to marines at outposts throughout Afghanistan. (USMC)
15. A villager crosses the bridge at Kasamabad to attend a school in the village of Baghban in Daikundi province, December 10 of 2011. The Coalition forces are planning to improve the condition of the bridge in order to make it easier for students to go to school. (US Navy / Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Leistikow)
16. Grover, the character of "Sesame Streets" with Afghans near the French Cultural Center in Kabul. November 30 2011 of the year. Now children in Afghanistan can begin their preschool education with the help of the TV show "Sesame Street". (Reuters / Omar Sobhani)
17. Aerial view of the Hindu Kush mountain range, 1 January, 2012 year. (Joel Saget / AFP / Getty Images)
18. Afghan special forces guard four captured Taliban in Herat, December 29 2011. Taliban fighters were captured during the operation of the Afghan National Army. (Aref Karimi / AFP / Getty Images)
19. The children look at the German fighter of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), who smokes on a halt during a patrol in the village of Khel in Chahar Dara District, December 16 2011. (Reuters / Thomas Peter)
20. Pakistani Taliban fighters conduct training in the southern Waziristan region. Associated Press reporter Ishtak Mahsud spent six days with the Taliban near the Afghan border. (AP Photo / Ishtiaq Mahsud)
21. Pakistani Taliban fighters conduct exercises in the southern Waziristan region. (AP Photo / Ishtiaq Mahsud)
22. Travis Bird, creator of The Secret Cinema, is showing a film in one of the cellars of Kabul, 8 December 2011. "Secret Cinema" for fans of British cinema held its first meeting outside the UK. (Reuters / Ahmad Masood)
23. An Afghan Elvis named Farhad Dariya, the UN Goodwill Ambassador, performs at a concert for Afghan women and girls at Amani School in Kabul, November 24 2011 of the year. Darius, nicknamed the Afghan Elvis, is perhaps the only man in the country who can turn the audience in modest hijabs into a heated crowd of screaming and whistling female fans. (Massoud Hossaini / AFP / Getty Images)
24. Women and girls at the concert of the singer Farhad Daria 24 November 2011 of the year. In a country where music was banned a decade ago, and the rights of women are restricted by the Taliban, Darius is considered an icon. The concert was held in secret because the venue could have been attacked by extremists. (Massoud Hossaini / AFP / Getty Images)
25. An American soldier doubles over from pain in a medical helicopter after being injured in a self-made bomb explosion in Logar province, 21 November 2011. (Reuters / Umit Bektas)
26. A boy rides a skateboard on Naderhan Hill in Kabul, November 14 2011 of the year. (AP Photo / Ahmad Jamshid)
27. Cadet West Point Lt. Michael Norris embraces his mother Terry at the coffin of Private First Class Cody Norris at his funeral in La Porte, Texas, 21 on November 2011 of the year. 20-year-old Cody Norris died on November 9 in Kandahar province when his car came under fire from militants. (AP Photo / Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)
28. F-15E US Air Force Strike Eagle takes off from Bagram airfield, December 21 2011. (USAF / Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht)
29. Tarana Akbari and her mother Bibi Khava at her home in Kabul, December 10 2011. A few days before, Tarana had miraculously survived the suicide bombing of a mosque. (Massoud Hossaini / AFP / Getty Images)
30. Corporal Marines Burns Britt loaded into the helicopter of the operational group "Dust Off", the company of Charlie 214 th Aviation Regiment. Britt was injured in a handicraft landmine explosion in Sangin, Helmand Province. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)
31. Marine Corp. Burns Britt is looking at photos taken right after his injury, Hunter Holmes Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. Britt undergoes a lengthy recovery procedure after a large fragment has cut his artery around his neck and caused partial paralysis. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)
32. The marines of the 1 Frontier Support Group helped the Afghan border guards and the police to conduct Operation Eagle Hunt. (USMC / Cl. Marco Mancha)
33. Afghan policemen give a demonstration during the graduation ceremony at the police training center in Herat, December 22 2011. At the end of the eight-week course from the Ansar 606 training center, 500 police officers graduated (Aref Karimi / AFP / Getty Images)
34. The 225-kilogram bomb detonated by air support aircraft to the firing position of militants in Gelan district, Ganzi province, 27 December 2011 of the year. The battle began in (US Army / Spc. Michael Creech)
35. Brandy and Levi Hoyle next to a photo of their father and husband Andy in Coquilla, Oregon, December 23 2011. While the real Andy is in Afghanistan, the "flat Andy" goes everywhere with his family and has already become a famous person. (AP Photo / The World, Lou Sennick)
36. Afghan boys play soccer in Kabul, December 21 2011. Football is one of the most popular games in Afghanistan, and for the most part it is played on dusty sand grounds. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)
37. The boots of the Afghan National Army soldier on the floor of the infirmary of the forward operational base Schenk in the province of Logar, November 12 2011. (Reuters / Umit Bektas)
38. From left to right: Elaine Diemer, Jenel Costner and Maritz Batallas help Ann Mary Tebs try on a dress during Operation Wedding Dress at a wedding boutique in Gastonia, North Carolina, 20 November 2011 of the year. Tebs, a student at the University of North Carolina, is engaged to a junior sergeant Peter Richards serving in Afghanistan. (AP Photo / The Gaston Gazette, Ben Goff)
39. Technician Sergeant Mike Morris dressed as Santa Claus loads a pallet with barrels aboard the C-17 aircraft. Globemaster III, 23 December 2011 of the year. (USAF / Staff Sgt. Nathanael Callon)
40. Fifteen-year-old Afghan girl Sugar Gul looks at Minister Husn Banu Gazanfar (right) in Kabul hospital, December 31 2011. The police rescued a girl who was beaten and kept under lock and key for nearly five months by her own relatives, who forced her into prostitution. The girl was found in the basement of her husband's house in the province of Baghlan 26 on December 2011 of the year after her parents reported to the police that she was missing. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)
41. Sergeant of the Afghan National Army Shah Baaz uses a metal detector under the supervision of the Marine Corps Junior Corporal group commander Zachariah Fischer from the 3 platoon of the India company 3 X battalion of the 3 MP regiment, December 30 2011 of the year. (USMC / Cpl. Reece Lodder)
42. Notes on the tree at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, December 16 2011. On the site number 60 in this cemetery are soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried. Headquarters Sergeant Matthew West, who is mentioned on the star, began his second year of service as a sapper in Afghanistan in July 2010, and died a month later in an explosion with four more servicemen. In the US, he left a wife and three children. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
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