Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, an internationally acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer, was fatally shot in Afghanistan, the AP said Friday, April 4. She was 48. Click through the gallery to see some of her photos from over the years.
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From the lens of Anja Niedringhaus —
An Afghan soldier, left, and a policeman peek through a window of a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, as they line up with others to get their voter registration card on Tuesday, April 1.
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A Libyan rebel urges people to leave as shelling from Moammar Gadhafi's forces started landing outside of Bin Jawad, Libya, in March 2011.
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From the lens of Anja Niedringhaus —
An Afghan boy flies his kite in May on a hill overlooking Kabul.
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From the lens of Anja Niedringhaus —
A German soldier lifts weights at his outpost near Kunduz, Afghanistan, in September 2011.
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Cpl. Burness Britt, an injured U.S. Marine, reacts after being lifted onto a helicopter in June 2011.
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A woman reacts in a New York taxi as television networks call the 2008 presidential race for Barack Obama.
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An Afghan boy holds a toy gun as he rides a merry-go-round in Kabul in September 2009.
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A warplane of Moammar Gadhafi's forces is shot down over the outskirts of Benghazi, Libya, in March 2011.
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A Canadian soldier chases a chicken seconds before he and his unit were attacked by grenades during a patrol in Salavat, Afghanistan, in September 2010.
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Hundreds of U.S. Marines gather at Camp Commando in the Kuwaiti desert during a Christmas Eve visit by Santa Claus in 2002.
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Cpl. Burness Britt, the U.S. Marine from an earlier photo in this gallery, reacts in December 2011 after seeing pictures of his medical evacuation.
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An Israeli soldier jumps off an armored vehicle carrying a flag of Israel's 60th anniversary as he celebrates with his unit in January 2009.
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A U.S. Marine is on his way to pick up food supplies after they were dropped off by a plane in Afghanistan's Helmand province in June 2011.
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A woman in Geneva, Switzerland, takes a dip in Lake Geneva during a sunrise in July.
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A man with his five children pays money to enter a park in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in November.
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Following an attack Wednesday, March 12, on the former Afghan intelligence headquarters in Kandahar, Pakistani bank notes are displayed on the body of a dead suicide bomber after police found them in his pocket.
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An Afghan carpet seller holds up a framed carpet depicting Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, March 30.
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U.S. President George W. Bush carries a platter of Thanksgiving turkey and fixings as he visits U.S. troops in Baghdad in November 2003.
