Política - Policy: Afganistán - Afghanistan - Crónica fotográfica - Photographic Chronicle - Boston Globe - Photos by Alan Taylor - Part 1

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A recent Pentagon report on the situation in Afghanistan over the past 6 months gives the impression that while things aren't necessarily getting any worse, they are far from improving. Afghan citizens, when polled, showed only limited support for their government, and a slight majority placed the blame for instability on Taliban forces. 
There remains a heavy reliance on international forces to provide security, training and equipment. As of March 31st, there were approximately 133,500 foreign troops on the ground in Afghanistan - 87,000 U.S. forces and 46,500 international forces. 
This month also saw the departure of a U.S. military presence from Afghanistan's notorious Korengal Valley, a small, isolated, patch of difficult terrain where 42 soldiers lost their lives over the past five years. NATO is calling the move a "realignment", focusing efforts on more-populated areas. 
Collected here are images of the country and conflict over the past month, part of an ongoing monthly series on Afghanistan
An Afghan detainee sits in the entrance to a bunker while under guard by US Marines from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, inside their base in Marjah, Helmand province, on April 7, 2010. A single Afghan man was arrested by US Marines near the site where a roadside bomb blew up early in the morning, with a false Pakistan passport, two different Afghan identification cards, some wires wrapped on a few batteries, an old rifle and pamphlets of Taliban activities in Marjah. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images) 

 A US Marines V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft kicks up dust as it takes off inside a US Marines base of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines in Marjah. A similar US aircraft crashed in Afghanistan, killing three American troops and a civilian, the military said April 9, 2010. The cause of the incident that downed the US Air Force CV-22 Osprey was under investigation. Photo taken on taken on March 22, 2010. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)

A CAT Scan shows the placement of a 14.5 millimeter high explosive incendiary round which was removed from the scalp of an Afghan National Army solder at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 18, 2010. The injury was sustained during an improvised ordinance device attack. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Richard Williams, US Air Force)

The crew of a U.S. Army helicopter checks an area near Combat Outpost Bari Alai, after firing air-to-ground missiles into a cave, during an extended attack by anti-Afghan forces, at Kunar province, in eastern Afghanistan, April 10, 2010. The event started when an estimated 30 anti-Afghan personnel fired on a dismounted patrol, near Nishigam village, wounding three, and attacked the outpost. (U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Gary A. Witte)

A mortar team from the U.S. Army's Centurion Company, 2-1 Infantry Battalion, 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team fire a 60mm round from a hand-held tube outside Combat Outpost Terminator in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province April 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Tim Wimborne)

A US Marine from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, performs exercises at an outdoor improvised gym, at a base recently set up in Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, on April 6, 2010. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)

Charlotte Fox, center, widow of Sergeant Paul Fox from 28 Engineer Regiment, views the flag draped coffin of her husband during the funeral service at St Ia's Church, in St Ives, England, Wednesday March 31, 2010, with Paul's father, Maurice Fox, second left. Sgt Paul Fox died on February 26 after being caught in an explosion near a checkpoint in Nad-e-Ali, Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo / Ben Birchall, PA)

Trucks carrying supplies to coalition forces burn after hundreds of people blocked a main road and set them on fire to protest what they said were civilian deaths in NATO operations in Logar province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 25, 2010. They gathered hours after NATO said coalition troops killed several insurgents and captured a Taliban sub-commander. (AP Photo/Mohammed Obaid Ormur)

A U.S. Marine from Lima company 3rd Battalion 6th Marines patrols the area of Karez-e-Sayyidi in Helmand province April 4, 2010. (REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih)

Stitch-on patches with blood group types, are seen for sale at the Afghanistan market inside the German army Bundeswehr field camp Marmal in Mazar-i-Sharif April 18, 2010. (REUTERS/Maurizio Gambarini)

 A female Afghan police officer gets paramilitary training April 21, 2010 in the east of Afghanistan. Afghan police are receiving paramilitary training, aimed at cutting the force's rising death rate and strengthening security forces so NATO can eventually withdraw its troops from the country. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) 






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