Afghan army commandos stand on a sand bank as a US army Apache helicopter flies above at sunset in Marjah's Balakino Bazar neighborhood on February 24, 2010. US-led troops were inching closer to declaring victory over a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan as a senior commander said Febrruary 24 that militant resistance had fallen dramatically. Residents of the Marjah area in Helmand province were streaming out in search of food and other supplies, risking heavily-mined roads, humanitarian workers said. (Photo by PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)
