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US soldiers and marines are known for working hard on their biceps and six-packs.
There is a corner of Kandahar that is forever Canada - the Tim Hortons coffee shop on the main US airbase.
Manufacturers of equipment used by Nato forces have experienced a surge in demand and profits since the September 11 attacks.
It's been a bad start to the year for Afghanistan. One person finds himself in the middle of all this, trying to balance the conflicting expectations: Said Jawad, the Afghan ambassador to Washington.
In our regular series decoding the power dressing of the political elite, we examine the style and substance of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
On millionaires' row in Herat, elaborate palaces are being built by businessmen who have made fortunes from exploiting the needs of the new Afghanistan - or selling heroin.
