An Afghan man sits on his wooden cart and drinks tea at dawn from a street tea stall in central Kabul. With the first respite from war in nearly two decades, Kabulis are busy re-building their lives and business amongst the ruins, and the streets are busy with markets, tea stalls, trucks, etc. Much of Kabul was destroyed in the mid 1990's (1992-1996) in factional fighting between rival mujahideen commanders for control of the capital after the Soviet's withdrawal.

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