War Dogs, Boomtowns, and Dead Dictators

Foreign Policy’s most popular photo essays of 2011.

DECEMBER 28, 2011

When the U.S. war in Afghanistan began, the first iPhone was not yet a gleam in Steve Jobs's eye -- and forget having an app for that. But as America's longest war stretches on, a group of photojournalists told the story of U.S. Marines in southern Afghanistan through these remarkable photos taken and edited on the now-ubiquitous device.

Teru Kuwayama and Balazs Gardi