Ars On Terror News Today

Camp Rhino, Afghanistan, Dec. 12, 2001: The desert version of a Christmas tree — dried brush decorated with bits of rope and red-and-white beaded candy cane, complete with a star on top — provided a quirky backdrop for the troops’ morning briefings.

Zhari, Afghanistan, Dec. 9, 2010: 101st Airborne soldiers patrol through grape fields with vines that are dead for the winter.

Shembowat, Afghanistan, June 14, 2009: An American soldier stands guard on a hilltop as U.S. and Afghan forces pay a visit after a rocket was fired from the area toward their base, Camp Clark, just a few miles away.

Asadabad, Afghanistan, Oct. 15, 2004: Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division get on a CH-47 Chinook on their way to an air assault. Helicopters inserted the soldiers onto a hilltop 8,000 feet into the mountains near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.