2009: War in Afghanistan (65 images)

U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles, from the 335th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, drops 2,000 pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions on a cave in eastern Afghanistan on November 26, 2009. The 335th is deployed to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina UPI/Michael B. Keller/U.S. Air Force

NATO soldier walks through the scene of a suicide attack near a guesthouse that catered to foreigners on December 15, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The suicide attack killed eight people and wounded another 40 according to interior ministry officials. UPI/Hossein Fatemi

Army Pvt. John Stafinski, an infantryman with 3rd Platoon, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, fires his squad automatic weapon into an anti-Afghan forces location during a firefight in the Waterpur Valley, in Afghanistan's Kunar Province, November 3, 2009. UPI/Cody A. Thompson/U.S. Army.

A soldier from the Afghan national army provides security during a dismounted patrol near the village of Dehayat, Afghanistan on November 9, 2009. UPI/Rock Stevens/U.S. Army