1. Workers at a brick factory load coal into a furnace. The factory employs around 70 adult and child laborers in the western part of Kabul and produces 21,000 bricks a day. The furnace runs 24 hours a day from spring to fall, requiring four workers to stay at the factory at all times. Photo: Jonathan Saruk The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter. Workers at a brick factory load coal into a furnace. The factory employs around 70 adult and child laborers in the western part of Kabul and produces 21,000 bricks a day. The furnace runs 24 hours a day from spring to fall, requiring four workers to stay at the factory at all times. Photo: Jonathan Saruk The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter.

    Workers at a brick factory load coal into a furnace. The factory employs around 70 adult and child laborers in the western part of Kabul and produces 21,000 bricks a day. The furnace runs 24 hours a day from spring to fall, requiring four workers to stay at the factory at all times. Photo: Jonathan Saruk

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  2. An infantryman from  2nd Platoon, Comanche Company takes a rest after setting up camp on a hill overlooking the border with Pakistan. The platoon surveyed the area for possible insurgent activity as well as to search surrounding villages for possible weapons caches. Photo: Javier Manzano The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter. An infantryman from  2nd Platoon, Comanche Company takes a rest after setting up camp on a hill overlooking the border with Pakistan. The platoon surveyed the area for possible insurgent activity as well as to search surrounding villages for possible weapons caches. Photo: Javier Manzano The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter.

    An infantryman from  2nd Platoon, Comanche Company takes a rest after setting up camp on a hill overlooking the border with Pakistan. The platoon surveyed the area for possible insurgent activity as well as to search surrounding villages for possible weapons caches. Photo: Javier Manzano

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  3. A young boy watches a NATO convoy of IED-resistant vehicles drive by on their way to the Provincial Reconstruction Team base in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province. Photo: Jonte Wentzel The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter. A young boy watches a NATO convoy of IED-resistant vehicles drive by on their way to the Provincial Reconstruction Team base in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province. Photo: Jonte Wentzel The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter.

    A young boy watches a NATO convoy of IED-resistant vehicles drive by on their way to the Provincial Reconstruction Team base in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province. Photo: Jonte Wentzel

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  4. A man hurries to catch a ride at the bus station in Herat. Illegal Taliban checkpoints continue to be a security threat to Afghans traveling around the country - especially to those carrying any kind of foreign aid agency or government IDs. Photo: Sandra Calligaro The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter. A man hurries to catch a ride at the bus station in Herat. Illegal Taliban checkpoints continue to be a security threat to Afghans traveling around the country - especially to those carrying any kind of foreign aid agency or government IDs. Photo: Sandra Calligaro The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter.

    A man hurries to catch a ride at the bus station in Herat. Illegal Taliban checkpoints continue to be a security threat to Afghans traveling around the country - especially to those carrying any kind of foreign aid agency or government IDs. Photo: Sandra Calligaro

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  5. Doctors shows patients x-rays in a clinic outside Jalalabad. Even after more than a decade of foreign aid, healthcare remains some of the worst in the world. Photo: Mikhail Galustov The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter. Doctors shows patients x-rays in a clinic outside Jalalabad. Even after more than a decade of foreign aid, healthcare remains some of the worst in the world. Photo: Mikhail Galustov The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter.

    Doctors shows patients x-rays in a clinic outside Jalalabad. Even after more than a decade of foreign aid, healthcare remains some of the worst in the world. Photo: Mikhail Galustov

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  6. Afghan hike up a hill in Bamyan Province during a training to be ski instructors as the province strives to promote tourism in the area mountains. Photo: Jake Simkin The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter. Afghan hike up a hill in Bamyan Province during a training to be ski instructors as the province strives to promote tourism in the area mountains. Photo: Jake Simkin The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter.

    Afghan hike up a hill in Bamyan Province during a training to be ski instructors as the province strives to promote tourism in the area mountains. Photo: Jake Simkin

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  7. An aid worker stands lost on top of an embankment along the Helmand River during a foot patrol to find a site to be reinforced for a local farmer during the height of the civilian surge. Photo: John Wendle The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter. An aid worker stands lost on top of an embankment along the Helmand River during a foot patrol to find a site to be reinforced for a local farmer during the height of the civilian surge. Photo: John Wendle The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter.

    An aid worker stands lost on top of an embankment along the Helmand River during a foot patrol to find a site to be reinforced for a local farmer during the height of the civilian surge. Photo: John Wendle

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  8. An aid worker dressed in local clothing talks on a mobile phone while a man plows his field in the shadow of the niches where the Buddhas of Bamyan used to stand. He is protected by an armed Afghan security contractor. Photo: John Wendle The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter. An aid worker dressed in local clothing talks on a mobile phone while a man plows his field in the shadow of the niches where the Buddhas of Bamyan used to stand. He is protected by an armed Afghan security contractor. Photo: John Wendle The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter.

    An aid worker dressed in local clothing talks on a mobile phone while a man plows his field in the shadow of the niches where the Buddhas of Bamyan used to stand. He is protected by an armed Afghan security contractor. Photo: John Wendle

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  9. An aid worker learns how to fire a Kalashnikov rifle in the desert outside of Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province as part of an effort by security contractors to acquaint NGO staff with live fire in case of an attack during the height of the Civilian Surge. Photo: John Wendle The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter. An aid worker learns how to fire a Kalashnikov rifle in the desert outside of Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province as part of an effort by security contractors to acquaint NGO staff with live fire in case of an attack during the height of the Civilian Surge. Photo: John Wendle The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter.

    An aid worker learns how to fire a Kalashnikov rifle in the desert outside of Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province as part of an effort by security contractors to acquaint NGO staff with live fire in case of an attack during the height of the Civilian Surge. Photo: John Wendle

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  10. Soldier in a sandstorm in Northern Afghanistan. Photo: Joel van Houdt The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter. Soldier in a sandstorm in Northern Afghanistan. Photo: Joel van Houdt The war in Afghanistan is not over. Help us tell the story. Fund our Kickstarter.

    Soldier in a sandstorm in Northern Afghanistan. Photo: Joel van Houdt

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