17-year-old Aysulu walks along the dried riverbed of the Amu Darya, near her home in Nukus, Uzbekistan. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
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China's President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose during their trilateral meeting with Mongolia on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Thursday. Alexandr Demyanchuk/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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A woman removes pieces of broken glass from a shop window after a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 23. Vadim Ghirda/AP hide caption
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Over half a million Soviet troops served in Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989. Among the first deployed was Rustam Khodzhayev, seen posing here (front row, first from the left) with his special operations unit in 1981. Khodzhayev family hide caption
We Asked Vets Of The Soviet-Afghan War To Judge The U.S. Exit. Here's What They Said
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Ticks of the genus Hyalomma, pictured here, are principally responsible for passing on Crimea-Congo hemorrhagic fever to humans. Adam Cuerden hide caption