Sadat Mir, 28, with his five-year-old son, Nangialay. Sadat stepped on a mine while attepting to flee with his family in the middle of the night during intense fighting between the Taliban and rival forces. |
Farooq Ghulamshah, 27, of Panjshir, was captured by the Taliban in 1998. His only offense, he says, was that he was from Panjshir, a stronghold of Taliban resistence. |
Ahmad Fawad was jubulant the day he returned to his home in Shomali plain after fleeing with only the clothes on his back six years ago after being persecuted by the Taliban. |
Saber Hammed was three when he lost his legs in a rocket attack in Kabul. That attack killed his father. |
Prosthetic limbs sit on a shelf at the Red Cross clinic in Kabul. They are awaiting the call to duty from the multitudes who have lost their appendages in the 23 years of war that have racked this country. |
Widows line up to receive a monthly ration of supplies from C.A.R.E. International at a distribution point in Kabul, Afghanistan. |
Nazia, 12, lost her father last year when he was killed by a bomb dropped from an American plane that was targeting a radar station on the mountain near her home. |
Rohafza Nadiri, 27, was walking through the front entrance of her school at age 11 when she stepped on a land mine. |
Abdul Haq, 28, works for the mine clearing agency Halo Trust, one of a handful of organizations trying to rid Afghanistan of its deadly land mines. |