Photo Gallery The Unwinnable War
British Royal Marines during a deployment in Helmand province. The struggle in Afghanistan has developed into a new type of international war.
Soldiers from the B Company of the Third Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment during a patrol in Hutal, Maywand District in Kandahar province.
British soldires relax at Strongpoint Jackson in Hutal in the Maywand District of Kandahar province.
Soldiers from B Company, 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, 16 Air Assault Brigade leave the Maywand district in Kandahar Province.
A soldier is hit by a sand storm from a helicopter in Hutal.
A soldier on patrol in Hutal.
The arrival of Portuguese troops at Hutal: They wanted an ice machine and an ATM.
Major Stuart McDonald in Jutal: At home, his daughter celebrated her third birthday three days ago.
An opium field in Hutal: Teachers moonlight as smugglers, mayors operate heroin laboratories and provincial governors have been stopped with 150 kilograms of pure heroin in the trunks of their cars.
Afghan soldiers flee during the attack and assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on April 27: The scene had disintegrated into scores of people ducking and waiting, running and cowering.
