25 most dramatic conflict and crisis photos of 2011
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US soldiers gather near a destroyed vehicle and protect their faces from rotor wash, as their wounded comrades are airlifted by a Medevac helicopter from the 159th Brigade Task Force Thunder to Kandahar Hospital Role 3, on August 23, 2011. Three soldiers were wounded while their vehicle was destroyed up by an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED).
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A man sets himself on fire outside a bank branch in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 16, 2011. The 55-year old man had entered the bank and asked for a renegotiation of his overdue loan payments on his home and business, according to police, which he could not pay, but was refused by the bank.
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Smoke rises from burning tires on Periferico Avenue in Guatemala City, October 24, 2011. Protesters gathered to demonstrate to demand that Congress pass a housing law which would guarantee adequate housing, services and infrastructure for people living in informal settlements without basic services, local media reported.
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A policeman fires a teargas shell towards protesters demanding a separate Telangana state carved out of the southern Andhra Pradesh state during a demonstration in Hyderabad, India, January 7, 2011. Supporters of Telangana statehood say the interior region has been neglected in favour of Andhra Pradesh's dominant coastal districts.
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NATO and Afghan troops attend to casualties during a battle with Taliban insurgents who took over a building near the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 14, 2011. An assault by Taliban insurgents on the heart of Kabul's diplomatic and military enclave has ended after 20 hours, when security forces killed the last of six attackers.
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Velune Noel, 24, lies with her cholera-infected 12-month-old son Peterson Sharmont on a cot at a Samaritan's Purse cholera treatment center in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 8, 2011. A policeman fires a teargas shell
An overnight shift at the hospital, where she flops on a cot and watches an action movie until a helicopter lands. Volunteer shifts helping out in the operating room, watching doctors try — and frequently succeed — stabilizing badly wounded American
We even have some furniture — my parents each have a narrow cot with “straw mattresses.” My sister and I, both adults, share a single bed and my 6-foot-tall brother sleeps on a 5-foot-long table. There is not room enough for him on the floor,