British army Corporal Sandra Jordan exercises at Camp Bastion, Britain's largest base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, at sundown, on June 3, 2009. Jordan is a ward nurse at the camp hospital, where British and coalition force troops, Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police, as well as civilians and enemy casualties are treated. #

An Afghan artist removes rubbish in front of her graffiti in an industrial park in Kabul, on December 19, 2010. A group of women in burqas rises from the sea to symbolise cleanliness. #

A newly graduated soldier from the Afghan National Army (ANA) attends a graduation ceremony in Kabul, on September 23, 2010. Afghanistan's army got its first female officers in decades, when 29 women graduated in a class of new recruits. #

U.S. Marine Female Engagement Team members Lance Cpl. Mary Shloss, right, of Hammond, Indiana, Sgt. Monica Perez of San Diego, California, and Cpl. Kelsey Rossetti, of Derry, New Hampshire, wait for the signal to begin their patrol with Golf Company, 2nd Batallion, in Helmand Province, on August 10, 2009. #

U.S. Army Sgt. Lidya Admounabdfany writes down information from a local woman at the Woman's Center near the Zhari District Center outside of Forward Operating Base Pasab, Kandahar province, on December 17, 2011. Admounabdfany was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1990, living through the 2003 U.S. invasion, hiding in a basement with her family. Her mother, a widow who spoke some English, met and married an American security adviser and the whole family soon moved to Oklahoma City. When she was 17, she graduated High School and enrolled in the U.S. Army, hoping to go to Iraq. As the wars changed priorities, Admounabdfany ended up learning Dari and Pashto, and was deployed to Afghanistan as a member of 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division's Female Engagement Team. Full story here. #

Melissa Lamb carries her two-year-old daughter Rosie as she touches the hearse carrying the coffin, of her killed husband Rifleman Martin Lamb, draped in a union flag at Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, England, on June 9, 2011. #

An Afghan woman, Bibi Hur, cries over her injured daughter at a hospital in Herat, west of Kabul, on August 18, 2011. Bibi Hur has lost three of her children and two more injured by a road side bomb, Hur said. The roadside bomb killed at least 20 passengers traveling on a minibus in western Afghanistan. #

Spc. Janae Gaston (left), a native of Goosecreek, South Carolina, is an intelligence specialist who volunteered to deploy with the first Female Engagement Team to be trained with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, on June 20, 2012. #

An Afghan policewoman indicates to unseen attendees where to proceed for a ceremony to mark International Women's Day in Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, on March 8, 2010. #

Pfc. Sarina Butcher, 19, of Checotah, Oklahoma. The U.S. Department of Defense announced on November 2, 2011 that Butcher and 26-year-old Spc. Christopher Gailey of Ochelata died when their vehicle was attacked with an improvised explosive device in Paktia province, Afghanistan. #

A woman prays at the Family Guidance Center women's shelter in Kabul, on August 9, 2009. According to a 2006 report by the UK-based NGO "Womankind," anywhere between 60 and 80 percent of marriages in Afghanistan are forced, 57 percent of brides are under the age of 16, and 87 percent complain of domestic violence. Afghan women suffer from the lowest literacy rate in the world, at 13 percent. #

Afghan prisoner Fauzia stares out of prison bars at Badam Bagh, Afghanistan's central women's prison, in Kabul, on March 28, 2013. Fauzia is the oldest woman in jail and has served already seven years in jail. She will serve a 17 year sentence for killing her husband and her daughter-in-law. "I was in one room. I came into the next room and they were there having sexual relations. I found a big knife and killed them both," she said in a voice empty of emotion. #

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Stephanie Robertson, a member of the female engagement team (FET) assigned to 2d Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 7, speaks with locals during an engagement mission in Marjah, Afghanistan, on August 18, 2010. #

Afghan women take a workshop sponsored by a Malaysian NGO called Mercy that seeks to help local females to empower themselves, on April 15, 2010 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. #

An Afghan widow takes part in a demonstration at a CARE International food distribution center in Kabul, on March 6, 2006. Hundreds of widows staged a protest as they urged CARE to continue food distribution. #

Julie Ann Catherine Mason, wife of Master Corporal Jeffrey Scott Walsh, embraces their seven-month-old son Benjamin (right) and daughter Avery Mason on the tarmac after a repatriation ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Trenton August 12, 2006. Walsh was killed in what is believed to be a friendly-fire gun accident after arriving in Afghanistan only six days earlier. #

Young Afghan girls and women enjoy a concert by the "Afghan Elvis", singer Farhad Darya, a United Nations goodwill ambassador, during a concert for young women at Amani high school in Kabul, on November 24, 2011. In a country where women still have limited rights and music was banned under the Taliban until ten years ago, Darya is an icon for millions and his popularity was clear at a rare, top security, female-only show in Kabul. #

A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban fires a weapon at a woman accused of adultery during her execution in a village outside Kabul in this still image taken from undated footage released on July 7, 2012. Locals and Kabul authorities vowed to avenge the public execution, brazen violence that spurred shock and sharp condemnation from Afghan authorities and the United States. #

Momtaz, 16, a victim of an acid attack, participates in a protest against the recent public execution of a young woman, in Kabul, on July 11, 2012. The Taliban denied involvement in the killing in Parwan province, in which an unnamed woman's head and body were riddled with bullets at close range in punishment for alleged adultery. Authorities in Kabul directly blamed the Islamist group. #

An Afghan amputee practices walking with her prosthetic leg at one of the International Committee of the Red Cross hospitals for war victims and the disabled in Kabul, on June 5, 2013. #

Veronica Ortiz Rivera, widow of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Javier O. Ortiz Rivera, grieves during her husband's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on December 2, 2010. Ortiz died while serving in Afghanistan. #

Michelle Ping, paramedic attached to the British Army's Highlanders, 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland, secures an area at a joint checkpoint with Afghan National Police outside the town of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, on July 11, 2011. #

An unidentified Afghan prostitute looks out a window in her Madame's house in Kabul, on May 26, 2008. Afghanistan is one of the world's most conservative countries, yet its sex trade appears to be thriving. #

U.S. Army soldier SSG Norma Gonzales of 426 Civil Affairs Battalion reads a magazine next to fellow soldiers while waiting to be ferried by helicopter to different U.S. military bases in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, on October 11, 2012. #

Mary Ellen Adkinson, left, grandmother of Army Ranger Staff Sgt. Vinson Adkinson III, Veronica Adkinson, center, his widow, and Mary Kay Adkinson, his sister, during burial services at Ft. Sill National Cemetery in Elgin, Oklahoma, on September 13, 2010. Adkinson, 26, was killed in the line of duty on August 31, 2010, in Afghanistan. #

Sargeant Patricia A. Aquino, US Marines 2nd Batallion, shows a picture of her children, Jenna and Christopher prior to a patrol in Gamser, Helmand province, on February 20, 2011. #

Hospital Corpsman Shannon Crowley, 22, US Navy Sailor working with the FET (Female Engagement Team) 1st Battalion 8th Marines, Regimental Combat team II, rushes into the shower tent on November 17, 2010 in Musa Qala, Afghanistan. With 269 male marines and 3 females living at a small outpost the females have only one hour a day (30 minutes in the morning and 30 in the afternoon) to shower. #

Hospital Corpsman Shannon Crowley, 22, US Navy Sailor working with the FET 1st Battalion 8th Marines, eats American snacks sent from home while studying, on November 17, 2010 in Musa Qala, Afghanistan. The women, many who volunteer for the 6.5 month deployment take a 10 week course at Camp Pendleton in California where they are trained for any possible situation, including learning Afghan customs and basic Pashtun language. #

A victim of a blast is led away from the site in Kabul, on December 15, 2009. A large explosion rocked Kabul's main diplomatic and government residential district, as President Hamid Karzai was expected to attend an anti-corruption conference in the Afghan capital. #

A wounded woman rests at a hospital after NATO air strikes in Laghman province, on September 16, 2012. NATO-led air strikes in southern Laghman province killed eight women, according to a local official. #

An Afghan woman takes photographs from the banks of Band-e Haibat, in the chain of Band-e Amir Lakes, located about 170 km (106 miles) west of Bamiyan, on August 14, 2009. #

Lesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Michigan, lies down in front of the grave of her brother, Ryan Coyer, who served with the U.S. Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, on March 11, 2013. Coyer died of complications from an injury sustained in Afghanistan. #

An Afghan woman holds her newborn baby, wrapped in her burqa, as she waits to try on a new burqa in a shop in the old town of Kabul, on April 11, 2013. Although the burqa remains popular, tradesmen say times are changing in Kabul at least, with demand for burqas declining as young women going to school and taking office jobs refuse to wear the cumbersome garments. #