A member of the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) assigned to Forward Operating Base Sweeney, Zabul Province, Afghanistan, provides security while supplies are loaded after and air drop from a C-130 Hercules on February 7th, 2010. Winds during the drop gusted up to 20mph. #

Mine clearing line charge explodes during a route clearing procedure on route dodge, Paktika province, Afghanistan, February 10. The route clearing procedure was to deploy a mine clearing line charge to destroy possible improvised explosive device. #

Zabul Province Deputy Chief of Police Jalani Khan salutes graduates during an Afghan National Police graduation at the Qalat Academy, Afghanistan, February 19. More than 250 officers graduated from training and will return to their respective communities to serve. #

An Afghan National Army (Non-Commissioned Officer) recruit marches during a graduation parade after an oath ceremony at Ghazi military training center in Kabul February 3, 2011. #

An Afghan woman waits to receive alms in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, February 12, 2011. Despite billions of dollars donated by the foreign countries, Afghanistan remains on the poorest countries in the world, 10 years after the collapse of the Taliban regime. #

Pakistani firefighters try to extinguish fire erupted from the wreckage of NATO oil tankers following a timed device blast at a terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar on February 26, 2011. Four NATO tankers gutted by a series of blasts on February 25 caught fire again when an unexploded timed device went off, wounding two people in northwestern Pakistan, police said. More than two dozen militants had struck a terminal on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar on February 25 and planted devices on 12 out of 18 parked tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan. #

Pakistani police officials and firefighters gather beside flames which erupted from the wreckage of NATO oil tankers originally bound for NATO forces in Afghanistan following a blast at a terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar on February 26, 2011. #

U.S. Marines with 1st Marine Division, 1st Tank Battalion, Delta Company, navigates the terrain of Helmand province, Afghanistan in an M1A1 Abrams Tank while on a convoy escorted by 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward) (1st MLG (FWD)), Combat Logistics Battalion 8 (CLB-8) on February 1, 2011. #

Private First Class Benjamin Brickman, from Albany, New York, of the First Battalion Eighth Marines, Alpha Company, is reflected in a cracked and discarded vehicle wing mirror as he practices on a guitar at an outpost in Kunjak, southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on February 16, 2011. #

A captured suspected suicide attacker involved in an earlier attack on a bank is presented to the media by Afghan police in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb, 20, 2011. The Afghan government says the death toll in Saturday's attack by gunmen wearing explosives vests on a bank in the eastern city of Jalalabad has risen to 38. #

US Marines from 1st Battalion, 8th Marines fire at alleged Taliban fighters as their dog Miely runs around outside new Mirage base, on the south of Musa Qala District, Helmand province on February 4, 2011. #

U.S. medic Robert Amrani with the U.S. Army's Task Force Mustang "Dust Off" Company based out of Fort Hood, Texas, wears a mask around his helmet bearing the words, "When I have your wounded", during a mission in his Blackhawk medevac helicopter in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, February 21, 2011. The sentence refers to the final words of Charles Kelly, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot killed in action during the Vietnam war. Kelly was considered the founder of dustoff, and was known for his willingness to fly into danger to rescue wounded. #

An Afghan dog owner waits to take part in a dog fight in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, February 18, 2011. Dog fighting is a popular pastime amongst Afghans during the winter season and the public matches are held every Friday, which is the official weekly holiday in Afghanistan. #

This combination picture shows a US Marine from 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, Bravo company shooting a missile from a Mirage patrol base, Musa Qala District, in Afghanistan's Helmand province on February 8, 2011. #

Mourners observe a repatriation ceremony as the hearse carrying Private Martin Bell is driven through the town of Wootton Bassett in southwest England February 3, 2011. Bell, the 350th British soldier killed while serving in Afghanistan, died while on patrol in Afghanistan on January 25. #

U.S. Marines from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company, in the last weeks of their seven-month deployment, wear worn and soiled uniforms in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, February 27, 2011. Most of the Marines stationed at remote outposts have not showered for months and rarely have the chance to change uniforms. #

An Afghan drug addict looks up as he attends a class on information on HIV/AIDS and use of drugs by a Medicins Du Monde clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan on February 8, 2011. Studies suggest Afghanistan currently has a "concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemic" within a growing population of injecting drug users. #

A wounded Afghan child receives treatment at a hospital in Kunar province on February 21, 2011. President Hamid Karzai accused NATO troops of killing more than 50 civilians during days of operations in a troubled province of eastern Afghanistan. #

Australian defense engineers carry the casket of their friend and colleague Cpl. Richard Atkinson, at Multinational Base Tarin Kot in Uruzgan, Afghanistan on February 5, 2011. Atkinson was killed by an Improvised Explosive Device, February 2, 2011, during a partnered Afghan National Army patrol in the Tangi Valley. #

U.S. Marines from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company return to their base at the end of a patrol near the town of Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province February 23, 2011. #