Exposure to Western culture since 2001 has transformed Afghanistan's previously isolated society, and a love of tattoos has taken hold – despite inking parlours being illegal. Under the Taliban ...

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Exposure to Western culture since 2001 has transformed Afghanistan’s previously isolated society, and a love of tattoos has taken hold — despite inking parlours being illegal. Under the ...

It features Iraq and Afghanistan veterans' tattoos, some as small as the word "ouch" and some covering most of the person's arms and torsos. The tattoos are vividly colored, reflecting military ...

Soraya Shahidy carefully lays a stencil on Nargis Merzayi’s arm before inking the latest tattoo in her salon in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul. Tattoo artist Soraya Shahidy, speaks with a ...

Soraya Shahidy has left her permanent mark on the world… as the first ever female tattoo artist in Afghanistan, a country where many still believe that inking skin is a sin against Islam. "Tattoos are ...

TIME’s photo blog, LightBox, has published a stunning series of photographs of tattoos troops get to commemorate their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. That kind of body art is a little ...

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A U.S. Marine shows off a tattoo to a local boy while patrolling on March 23, 2009, in the village of Kirta, in remote southwest Afghanistan. Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment ...

The tattoo, according to Gaertner, is actually a “Titan 2” symbol for his platoon when he served in Afghanistan. “The writing on his right arm is the Spartan Creed which is about protecting ...

The “Fox and Friends” presenter, 44, served tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and holds degrees from both Princeton and Harvard. Hegseth’s father warned him off tattoos in his youth, so he only ...