A policeman of the ANP (Afghan National Police) controls traffic at a checkpoint in Kabul on October 11, 2009. According to German media, Germany is to send some 1200 police instructors to Afghanistan for a NATO-led training mission. Only some 110 German police are based in the country by now. Getty Images logo Getty Images 9 months ago

A policeman of the ANP (Afghan National Police) controls traffic at a checkpoint in Kabul on October 11, 2009. According to German media, Germany is to send some 1200 police instructors to Afghanistan for a NATO-led training mission. Only some 110 German police are based in the country by now.

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  1. An burqa-clad Afghan woman begs following congregational Friday prayers outside a mosque in Kabul on July 30, 2010. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said July 30.
  2. An Afghan man (R) shines shoes outside a mosque during congregational Friday prayers in Kabul on July 30, 2010. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said July 30.
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  4. Italian Alpine troops on July 30, 2010 carry the coffin one of the two Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan on July 28, at the Ciampino airport outside Rome. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement the two were killed by an improvised explosive device, the Taliban's weapon of choice, but did not give the location of the attack.
  5. Urdu graffitti saying 'Death to America, Death to Israel' decorates a wall in the capital Islamabad on July 30, 2010. A majority of Pakistanis view the United States as an enemy, oppose the US-led war in Afghanistan and are less concerned about the Taliban and Al-Qaeda than a year ago, a Pew Research poll said Thursday. Despite billions of dollars in economic and military aid received from Washington, the United States' image in Pakistan was the lowest among the 22 nations included in the 2010 Pew Global Attitudes Survey of 2,000 Pakistanis taken between April 13-28.
  6. Marco, 7-years old, the son of Mauro Gigli, one of the two Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, cries as the coffin of his father, not seen, is shoulder carried at Ciampino military airport, near Rome, Friday, July 30, 2010. Mauro Gigli and Pierdavide De Cillis were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Wednesday moments after successfully dismantling another such makeshift device. Premier Silvio Berlusconi offered his condolences to the families of the soldiers but stressed the need for Italian troops to remain in the country.
  7. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano pays his respect in front of the coffin of one of the two Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan at Ciampino military airport, near Rome, Friday, July 30, 2010. Italian soldiers Mauro Gigli and Pierdavide De Cillis were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Wednesday moments after successfully dismantling another such makeshift device. Premier Silvio Berlusconi offered his condolences to the families of the soldiers but stressed the need for Italian troops to remain in the country.
  8. The coffins of Italian soldiers Mauro Gigli and Pierdavide De Cillis are shoulder carried at Ciampino military airport, near Rome, Friday, July 30, 2010. Mauro Gigli and Pierdavide De Cillis were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Wednesday moments after successfully dismantling another such makeshift device. Premier Silvio Berlusconi offered his condolences to the families of the soldiers but stressed the need for Italian troops to remain in the country.
  9. Relatives of one of the two Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan wait for the arrival of their coffins at Ciampino military airport, near Rome, Friday, July 30, 2010. Mauro Gigli and Pierdavide De Cillis were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Wednesday moments after successfully dismantling another such makeshift device. Premier Silvio Berlusconi offered his condolences to the families of the soldiers but stressed the need for Italian troops to remain in the country.
  10. Marco, 7, the son of Italian soldier Mauro Gigli who was killed in Herat province in Afghanistan, is carried by his brother next to their father's coffin at Ciampino airport in Rome July 30, 2010. Two members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died following an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in western Afghanistan on Wednesday.
  11. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano (R) pays his respects on July 30, 2010 at the foot of the coffin of one of the two Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan on July 28, at the Ciampino airport outside Rome. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement the two were killed by an improvised explosive device, the Taliban's weapon of choice, but did not give the location of the attack.
  12. A child cries on July 30, 2010 as the coffins of two Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan on July 28 arrive at the Ciampino airport outside Rome. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement the two were killed by an improvised explosive device, the Taliban's weapon of choice, but did not give the location of the attack.
  13. Italian soldiers carry the coffins of two comrades killed in Herat province in Afghanistan as they arrive at Ciampino airport in Rome July 30, 2010. Two members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died following an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in western Afghanistan on Wednesday.
  14. Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano touches the coffin of an Italian soldier killed in Herat province in Afghanistan as it arrives at Ciampino airport in Rome July 30, 2010. Two members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died following an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in western Afghanistan on Wednesday.
  15. Italian soldiers carry the coffins of their comrades after they landed in Ciampino airport in Rome July 30, 2010. Two members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died following an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in western Afghanistan on Wednesday.
  16. Afghan men gather to watch a live music near Band-i-Amir lakes outside the central Afghan province of Bamiyan during a local annual festival aimed at promoting tourism in the central highlands, in Bamiyan on July 29, 2010. Bamiyan, some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northwest of Kabul, stands in a deep green and lush valley stretching 100 kilometres through central Afghanistan, on the former Silk Road that once linked China with Central Asia and beyond. The town was home to two nearly 2,000-year-old Buddha statues before they were destroyed by the Taliban, months before their regime was toppled in a US-led invasion in late 2001.

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  1. A crowd of Afghan protestors destroy a car during clashes with police following Friday prayers in Kabul on July 30, 2010. Scores of Afghans rioted outside the US embassy in Kabul on Friday after a NATO vehicle crashed into a civilian car, killing a number of occupants, officials and witnesses said.
  2. An burqa-clad Afghan woman begs following congregational Friday prayers outside a mosque in Kabul on July 30, 2010. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said July 30.
  3. Marco, 7, the son of Italian soldier Mauro Gigli who was killed in Herat province in Afghanistan, is carried by his brother next to their father's coffin at Ciampino airport in Rome July 30, 2010. Two members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died following an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in western Afghanistan on Wednesday.
  4. Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Italian Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola speaks with the Associated Press during an interview at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Di Paola says cooperation with Moscow is expected to deepen further in 2011 because of shared concerns over Afghanistan, and the threats posed by terrorism and maritime piracy.
  5. Afghan firemen try to extinguish a burning oil tanker after an explosive device planted underneath it exploded, near a NATO airbase in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 29, 2010.
  6. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen talks to media during a break at the International Conference on Afghanistan at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kabul on July 20, 2010. A major international conference in Kabul ended on July 20 calling for at least 50 percent of development aid for the country to be channelled through the Afghan government's budget within two years.
  7. Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi (L), Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense spokesman, and Gen. Josef Blotz, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) spokesman, talk with journalists about the recent media reports on the leaking of classified U.S. documents by website Wikileaks, in Kabul July 28, 2010. The publication of tens of thousands of classified documents by whistleblower WikiLeaks has cast new light on Afghanistan - particularly the impact of the war on civilians, and Pakistan's role in the conflict.
  8. A U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) chats with a driver during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday.
  9. Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, left, and NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) spokesman Gen. Josef Blotz brief journalists on recent media reports on leaked classified U.S. documents by the website Wikileaks, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief claims his organization doesn't know who sent it some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on the Afghan war, telling journalists the website was set up to hide the source of its data from those who receive it.
  10. A US soldier of 2nd Platoon Bravo Troop of 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry shows pictures on his camera to Afghan boys in a village while on patrol in Kandahar province's Dand district in Afghanistan on July 28, 2010. Close to 150,000 US and NATO troops are deployed in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban insurgency.
  11. BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN - JULY 28: A boy watches U.S. Marines search vehicles at a checkpoint between Kabul-Bagram road for a missing U.S. Navy Sailor July 28, 2010 in Bagram, Afghanistan. NATO confirmed Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley, one of the two missing U.S. sailors, body has been recovered and Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove whereabouts are unknown. According to reports, the two missing U.S. Navy sailors drove off base July 23 from Camp Julien in the outskirts of Kabul.
  12. US soldiers of 2nd Platoon Bravo Troop of 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry wait to leave for a patrol at a forwarding operating base in Kandahar province's Dand district in Afghanistan on July 28, 2010. Close to 150,000 US and NATO troops are deployed in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban insurgency.
  13. US soldiers of 2nd Platoon Bravo Troop of 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry patrol in Kandahar province's Dand district in Afghanistan on July 28, 2010. Close to 150,000 US and NATO troops are deployed in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban insurgency.
  14. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) speaks with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi (C) and Interior Minister Rehman Malik (R) before a meeting with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad on July 21, 2010. NATO chief Rasmussen said that he sought broader, deeper ties with Pakistan, in a visit to Islamabad that followed a major international conference in neighbouring Afghanistan. Rasmussen reiterated a NATO commitment to stay in Afghanistan beyond the planned end of combat operations in 2014, and said he understood Pakistan's vital role in achieving security in the region.
  15. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, second from right, meets with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, right, in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Rasmussen said that the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan will not be driven by calendar but by conditions on the ground.
  16. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) speaks during a joint news conference with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Islamabad on July 21, 2010.

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  10. Pakistan's Salman Butt, right, watches Mohammad Asif being lifted by Umar Akmal after claiming the wicket of England's James Anderson during the second day of the first cricket Test match at the Trent Bridge cricket ground, in Nottingham, England, Friday July 30, 2010.
  11. Indian Shiite Muslims shout slogans against U.S. and Israel during a protest in New Delhi, India, Friday, July 30, 2010. The protest was held against the economic, trade, scientific and military sanctions against Iran by the two countries.
  12. LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 30: A man looks at a row of the new cycles after the launch of London's first ever cycle hire scheme on July 30, 2010 in London, England. It is hoped that the flagship cycling scheme which comprises of a total of 5000 bikes spread over 315 docking stations across the capital will help build on the growth in cycle journeys taken on London's major roads.
  13. Ukraine's Hanna Melnychenko during the women's heptathlon high jump at the 2010 European Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona on July 30, 2010.
  14. England's Stuart Broad is bowled out by Pakistan's Umar Gul during the second day of the first cricket Test match at the Trent Bridge cricket ground, in Nottingham, England, Friday July 30, 2010.
  15. Pakistan's Umar Gul claims the wicket of England's Stuart Broad during the second day of the first cricket test match at the Trent Bridge cricket ground, Nottingham, England, Friday, July 30, 2010.
  16. Pakistan's Kamran Akmal, right, and Mohammad Aamer, left, congratulate Mohammad Asif at the end of his over during the second day of the first cricket test match against England at the Trent Bridge cricket ground, Nottingham, England, Friday, July 30, 2010.