In place of uneasy February came in March, and it was even harder for the Coalition Forces. March 11 U.S. Army Sergeant Robert Beyls killed 17 Afghan civilians, including nine children. Now Beyls is in custody and will likely be sentenced to death. Passion after the burning of the Koran had not yet subside when Beyls arranged slaughter, thus aggravating an already tense situation in Afghanistan. In the U.S., fewer people support the troops stay in Afghanistan, but the administration of President Barack Obama is in no hurry to change the timetable for their withdrawal. According to this schedule last unit should return home in 2014. In this collection - photos from Afghanistan in the past month.
A. A local resident looks at a police checkpoint, where are the joint duty of the Afghans and the soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the "Blekhouk" Yosef Khel, March 9, 2012. . (US Army / Spc. Ken Scar)
Two. Refueling the E-3 "Sentry" from flying KC-10 tankers of 908 Squadron refueling over Afghanistan, March 3, 2012. In 2011, 908, I had refueled more than 28,000 refueling at a cost it 390 million pounds of fuel in the course of 4600 jobs. (USAF / Staff Sgt. Greg Biondo)
Three. A lonely man in newly sown field near U.S. base in Jalalabad, March 22, 2012. (Reuters / Erik De Castro)
4. Afghan spetsvoyska expect when a helicopter, UH-60 "Black Hawk" will be lowered a cable to evacuate the "wounded." Teachings of the coalition forces in Nangarhar, March 3, 2012. (Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force / Petty Officer 2nd Class Clayton Weis)
Five. Officers of the Afghan National Army at Camp Shaheen in the layout near Mazar-e Sharif, March 26, 2012. (Qais Usyan / AFP / Getty Images)
6. Refugee girl crying: she stole food stamps while she stood in line to the truck with humanitarian aid in Kabul, March 4, 2012. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)
7. Fighter of the Afghan National Army during the night of the stripping operation in Wardak province, March 6, 2012. (US Army / Spc. Savoy Anderson)
Eight. Door handle, made from the tail of a mortar mines, on the basis of the 13th Cavalry Regiment in Laghman province, March 24, 2012. (Reuters / Erik De Castro)
9. Soldiers of the 172nd Infantry Brigade on patrol in the village of Yahya Cal, March 10, 2012. (US Army / Spc. Ken Scar)
10. French soldiers in a ceremony before leaving for home-based Surobi in the province of Kabul, March 18, 2012. By the end of March in France, has served about 200 soldiers, and the number located on the base of the contingent was reduced to 600. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)
11. French soldiers in a ceremony before leaving for home-based Surobi in the province of Kabul, March 18, 2012.
12. Villagers Mohamad Khan going to get humanitarian aid, March 17, 2012. (ISAF Media)
13. The wife of Italian soldier Michel Silvestri at the airport near Rome, weeps at the sight of the coffin with the body of her husband, March 26, 2012. Sergeant. Michael Silvestri was killed in battle, when his unit came under mortar fire in the province of Farah in Afghanistan. (AP Photo / Pier Paolo Cito)
14. Soldiers of the 172nd Infantry Brigade on patrol in the village of Joseph Kel, March 10, 2012. Soldiers from Company A 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment assisted the Afghan military and police to establish checkpoints at the exits of the village. One of the cars while stuck in the mud. (US Army / Spc. Ken Scar)
15. Helicopter UH-60 "Black Hawk" takes off, landed eight men of the 1st Cavalry Regiment in okrge Daman Kandahar province. They worked observers during the application of the forces of Afghan air strike wing March 1, 2012. (1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team)
16. Girls of the Afghan Olympic basketball team play against a team of ISAF in Kabul, March 7, 2012. Changes in women's rights since the U.S. invasion of Iraq is simply enormous: if the Taliban forbade women to attend school and work. But despite the progress which is so strongly felt in the cities, in remote areas of the country almost nothing has changed. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)
17. A former Taliban fighter, who joined later, along with 11 other rebels over to the government troops, Herat, March 26, 2012. (Aref Karimi / AFP / Getty Images)
18. The right mirror armored "Boxer" - a reflection of a German tank officer, March 28, 2012. (Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty Images)
19. Staff Sergeant Robert Beyls at Fort Irwin, California, August 23, 2011. In March 2012 he shot a 16 Afghans, including 9 children. (AP Photo / DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock)
20. Anar Gul (right) next to the body of her grandson, allegedly killed Robert Beylsom in Panjwayi, Kandahar Province, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo / Allauddin Khan)
21. An expert examines the sleeve in place killing of civilians in U.S. troops by Robert Beylsom. The Americans paid compensation amounting to 50 thousand dollars for each victim, and 11 thousand dollars for each wounded. These amounts are significantly larger than the usual compensation - thus the U.S. is trying to save a precarious situation and mitigate their guilt to the people of the country. (AP Photo) |