UPDATE FROM THE FIELD – AFGHANISTAN
"Today I want to forget, only for a moment, the horrors of war. But war isn't listening to me, it doesn't stop, the wounded continue to arrive."
AFGHANISTAN: The Real Heroes Of The Conflict
"They haven’t got super-muscles or super-powers but just being able to say you’ve met them somehow helps set the world right."
EXPLOSION IN LASHKAR-GAH
That's what war is: you leave home in the morning and you're not sure you'll be going back, or that all your loved ones will still be there.
ATTACK ON A BANK IN LASHKAR-GAH
Damage to the EMERGENCY hospital where 20 casualties were taken after the attack: 6 were declared dead on arrival.