Pictures of the Year 2010

Final Flight
Photograph by David Guttenfelder / AP
A medevac helicopter carries the bodies of two U.S. soldiers killed in a roadside bomb attack in Kandahar Province. Though the U.S. has claimed some progress in the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the war shows few signs of ending soon.

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