United States Marines with Female Engagement Teams attached to the 3-1 Marines, Lance Corp Darlene Diaz, 20, from Belvedere, IL, washes up in the morning at the makeshift sinks at Cop Sher, in Helmand, Afghanistan, May 2, 2010. The female marines are attached to infantry batallians and are operating in teams throughout Helmand, and living on remote bases with Marine infantrymen. © Lynsey Addario/ VII Network

Relief organizations are mobilizing to bring food into Afghanistan. Jamillah and 10-month-old Shabanah, top, are among Afghan refugees who have fled to Pakistan © Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

An Afghan women is rushed from the scene of a suicide car bomb in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, December 15, 2009. It was reported that 5 people were killed and 31 wounded © Adam Ferguson/New York Times

Baghdad, Iraq. Thursday, April 10, 2003: American soldiers inside a Palace which belonged to Uday Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, April 10, 2003. The palace was heavily boomed by coalition airpower © Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

Tsunek, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. March 11, 2010. Afghan soldiers carry a wounded member of Afghan national police into a US Army medevac helicopter that landed on the outer perimeter of Combat Outpost Pirtle King, near the village of Tsunek, north-east Kunar Province, Afghanistan. An Afghan security forces checkpoint near the village of Zanger Bosha was ambushed by Taliban fighters, injuring at least two Afghan security forces that were then transported to the nearby US Army Combat Outpost Pirtle King for triage before being air evacuated to a military facility in Jalalabad. The two Afghan men were in stable condition and expected ti survive after sufering wounds from machine gun fire and rocket propelled grenades © Moises Saman/New York Times