VILLIAGE VOICES - U.S. and Afghan soldiers sit with village elders to discuss the latest developments in Kopak village in Afghanistan's Logar province, April 22, 2010. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Russell GilchrestAfghanistan Marks End Of One War During Another -- Yahoo News/AFP
KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan on Wednesday commemorated the 1992 toppling of a Soviet-backed regime, which led to bloody civil war and arguably to the rise of the Taliban, as the capital Kabul went under security lockdown.
Helicopter gunships clattered overhead as the Afghan army staged a 21-gun salute at a sports stadium in central Kabul, used as a public execution ground by the 1996-2001 Taliban regime that emerged from the devastating civil war.
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