AFGHANISTAN: Marines patrolling province on Iranian border

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Marines are mentoring Afghan forces in Farah province on Afghanistan’s western border with Iran in hopes of providing a greater sense of security to nomadic tribes.

Some tribes are already moving back into the area, where bands of Taliban fighters have been known to terrorize locals, Marines say.

— Tony Perry in San Diego