landofthelions: Afghanistan’s thirst for knowledge. Steve McCurry

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Stephanie Sinclair - Child Brides

Faiz Mohammed, 40, and Ghulam Haider, 11, are at her home in a rural village of Ghor province before their wedding. When asked how she felt that day, the bewildered girl responded, ‘I do not know this man. What am I supposed to feel?’ (via Photo Friday-Stephanie Sinclair)

Two girls tried to salvage flour donated by an aid organization that spilled onto the ground at the Charahi Qambar camp last week.

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An Afghan named Ibrahim held his youngest son outside a mud hut where he lives with his wife and 11 children. Normally, Kabul’s winters are mild for a city in a mountainous country, but not this year. It was the coldest January in 20 years, according to Mohammad Aslam Fazaz, deputy director of the national disaster office. Most nights, temperatures have been dropping below 20 degrees.

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The Magnum photographer Abbas has spent three decades documenting the human search for God.

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An Afghan vendor looks for customers on the second day of Eid al-Adha in Kabul, Afghanistan on November 7, 2011. (AP Photo)

11/23/11 - Passengers stand outside their vehicles to look at a burning oil tanker set ablaze by a bomb explosion after the road to the Afghan-Pakistan border was temporarily shut, on the outskirts of Landikotal. The tanker, carrying fuel for Nato troops in Afghanistan, was attacked and set ablaze in the bomb blast, police said. No casualties were reported. Image: Shahid Shinwari

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Lynsey Addario

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