Afghan children play on a swing near the Sakhi shrine, the centre of the Afghanistan new year celebrations in Kabul during Nowruz festivities, on March 21, 2013. Nowruz, one of the biggest festivals of the war-scarred nation, marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar. Nowruz is calculated according to a solar calendar, this coming year marking 1392. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)
|