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Afghan Civilian Casualty
Photographed by Adam Ferguson / VII Network for TIME
Corporal Nathaniel Matos from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, looks away from the body of Gulmakay, a 14-year-old Afghan girl who was killed by a U.S. Marines mortar strike in the village of Abdullah Jan.

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