During and embed with the First Battalion, Eighth Marines, combat photographer Finbarr O'Reilly came across graffiti from both sides of the conflict on a wall of a compound in southern

Afghanistan's Graffiti Wars

The artwork of Taliban, American and British forces competes on the walls of a Helmand province compound

Photographs by Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters

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