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picture title Quiet Revolution: In a move considered immodest by many conservative Muslims, Farzana Samemi, adjusts her head scarf to show some hair before doing a broadcast for Afghanistan's Tolo television network in Kabul, where she was the first…

A handful of aides stand at the ready while Afghan President Hamid Karzai carries on a conversation with the governor of Kandahar province in his private offices. Often derided as the 'Mayor of Kabul' instead of leader of the nation, Karzai…

A disgruntled delgation that came to visit with Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens as he addresses their concerns during a fancy luncheon held at the presidential palace complex in Kabul. With an increasing insurgency in the south it was too…

Progress has not met rising expectations in Afghanistan as a fledgling democracy struggles to take root. A weak and corruption-riddled government endeavors with building a stable democracy on a foundation of war, corruption, foreign interference and…

The wounded are stacked into buses that are used to transport them to a waiting Air Force plane for medical evacuation to a U.S. military hospital in Germany. From Germany the patients are then flown back into the United States for further…

Critical care patient Joshua Griffin, 19, is comforted by senior airman Kris Vensel after he scribbled 'I'm scared,' onto a note pad while waiting to be transported back to the United States to recover. Griffin was unable to speak due to a breathing…

U.S. military personnel work to load one of several patients to be transported through Germany and back to the United States for recovery. Flights full of the injured leave almost daily as the toll of the injured continues to escalate.

U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. James Michael Geiger III, 24, of Fayetteville, N.C., is prepped for an operation on his foot after he was injured by a land mine while he was giving out candy and radios to Iraqis south of the Haditha Dam in western Iraq. …

U.S. Army Sgt. Colin Johnson lays on an operating table awaiting surgery for a broken kneecap and shrapnel damage to his leg that was caused by a roadside bomb in central Iraq. The surgery took place at the Air Force Combat Support Hospital in…

Air Force Lt. Kirstin Carlson, center, and others work to turn over a wounded U.S. soldier after he sustained injuries on the battlefield. The emergency room at the Air Force Combat Support Hospital in Balad, Iraq is a series of tents strung…