A villager looks at an infant boy who died after a military raid in a village in Gurbuz district of Khost province April 9, 2009. U.S. and Afghan forces killed four militants, including two women, and detained three others on Wednesday near Khost city, some 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Kabul, U.S. forces said in a statement. But local residents disputed the military's account, saying five civilians, a female teacher, her son, brother in-law and two more non-combatants were killed in the raid. Another woman was wounded, they said. Reuters Pictures 10 months ago

A villager looks at an infant boy who died after a military raid in a village in Gurbuz district of Khost province April 9, 2009. U.S. and Afghan forces killed four militants, including two women, and detained three others on Wednesday near Khost city, some 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Kabul, U.S. forces said in a statement. But local residents disputed the military's account, saying five civilians, a female teacher, her son, brother in-law and two more non-combatants were killed in the raid. Another woman was wounded, they said.

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  1. This undated photo released by the bin Zaid family on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 shows Ali bin Zaid. Bin Zaid, a senior Jordanian intelligence officer and relative of Jordan's King Abdullah II, was killed when a suicide bomber identified as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi detonated a cache of explosives at Camp Chapman, a tightly secured CIA base in Khost province, a dangerous region southeast of the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009.
  2. The ashes of Harold E. Brown Jr., 37, of Fairfax Va., are carried into St. John the Evangelist Church in Clinton, Mass. on Saturday Jan. 9. 2010. Brown, who grew up in Bolton, Mass., was one of the seven Americans killed in a suicide bombing at a military base in the Khost Province of Afghanistan on December 30th, 2009.
  3. Followed by his wife Janet Brown, pink hat, and family members, the ashes of Harold E. Brown Jr., 37, of Fairfax Va., are carried into St. John the Evangelist Church in Clinton, Mass. on Saturday Jan. 9. 2010. Brown, who grew up in Bolton, Mass., was one of the seven Americans killed in a suicide bombing at a military base in the Khost Province of Afghanistan on December 30th, 2009.
  4. A man carries an American flag as he waits along Wattaquadock Hill Road in Bolton, Mass. for the procession following the funeral of Harold E. Brown Jr., 37, of Fairfax Va., on Saturday, Jan. 9. 2010. Brown, who grew up in Bolton, MA, was one of the seven Americans killed in a suicide bombing at a military base in the Khost Province of Afghanistan on December 30th, 2009.
  5. The ashes of Harold E. Brown Jr., 37, of Fairfax Va., are carried into St. John the Evangelist Church in Clinton, Mass. on Saturday Jan. 9. 2010. Brown, who grew up in Bolton, Mass., was one of the seven Americans killed in a suicide bombing at a military base in the Khost Province of Afghanistan on December 30th, 2009.
  6. KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: Military medical staff attempt to save the life of an Afghan man who was wounded in a suicide bombing in Gardez on January 7, 2010 at the trauma bay at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, were brought to the hospital at Salerno while three Afghans died in the trauma bay.
  7. KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: Military medical staff attempt to save the life of an Afghan man who was wounded in fighting on January 7, 2010 at the trauma bay at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, were brought to the hospital at Salerno while three Afghans died in the trauma bay.
  8. KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: Military medical staff wheel an Afghan man into the trauma bay after he was injured from casualties from fighting and a suicide bombing in Garbuz on January 7, 2010 at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, had been brought to the hospital at FOB Salerno while three Afghans died in the trauma bay.
  9. KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: Military medical staff wheel an Afghan man into the trauma bay after he was injured from casualties from fighting and a suicide bombing in Garbuz on January 7, 2010 at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, had been brought to the hospital at FOB Salerno while three Afghans died in the trauma bay.
  10. KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: Military medical staff attempt to save the life of an Afghan man who was wounded in a suicide bombing in Gardez on January 7, 2010 at the trauma bay at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, were brought to the hospital at Salerno while three Afghans died in the trauma bay.
  11. KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: Military medical staff attempt to save the life of an Afghan man who was wounded in fighting on January 7, 2010 at the trauma bay at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, were brought to the hospital at Salerno while three Afghans died in the trauma bay.
  12. KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: Military medical staff wheel an Afghan man into the trauma bay after he was injured from casualties from fighting and a suicide bombing in Garbuz on January 7, 2010 at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, had been brought to the hospital at FOB Salerno while three Afghans died in the trauma bay.
  13. KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: After an Afghan man who was wounded in fighting today died of his injuries in the room, military medical staff mop-up the blood on the floor while cleaning and gathering the equipment on January 7, 2010 at the trauma bay at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, were brought to the hospital at Salerno while three Afghans died in the trauma bay. The casualties where from fighting and a suicide bombing in Garbuz.
  14. KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: Military medical staff attempt to save the life of an Afghan man who was wounded in fighting on January 7, 2010 at the trauma bay at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, were brought to the hospital at Salerno while three Afghans died in the trauma bay.
  15. KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: Military medical staff wheel an Afghan man into the trauma bay after he was injured from casualties from fighting and a suicide bombing in Garbuz on January 7, 2010 at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, had been brought to the hospital at FOB Salerno while three Afghans died in the trauma bay.
  16. KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: Military medical staff attempt to save the life of an Afghan man who was wounded in fighting on January 7, 2010 at the trauma bay at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, were brought to the hospital at Salerno while three Afghans died in the trauma bay.

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