Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 27, 2010: 8-year-old Nic Mohammad who, together with his sister, Razzia, was injured in a bomb blast — recuperates at NATO’s Role 3 Hospital at Kandahar Airfield.

With U.S. and other NATO forces stepping up operations in southern Afghanistan since the summer, the Taliban have been fighting back with larger and more powerful bombs. The result: More soldiers and civilians losing limbs than at any other time since the war began in 2001.

About two-thirds of the patients treated at the hospital are Afghans, according to Navy Cmdr. Barbara Kincaide, an intensive care nurse at the facility.

Read more about Role 3 Hospital here.

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