Civilian Interactions in Conflict Zones

Images depict civilians, including women and children, interacting with military personnel in conflict areas. The mood is serious, with earthy tones prevailing.

A young boy smiles for the camera while Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Dixon, a Navy corpsman with Guard Force, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, treats a teenagers foot injury during a patrol here, July 29. The Marines and sailors of 1/6 took part in the initial offensive to loosen the insurgents grip here, and the battalion has now returned, giving many within the unit a chance to see progress since their last deployment.

040513-M-8683D-011. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Surobi Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 3d BN 6th Mar

060308-A-5745M-112. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

030410-M-9792P-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

030405-M-4779G-013. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030615-M-4066S-014. Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A young boy smiles for the camera while Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Dixon, a Navy corpsman with Guard Force, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, treats a teenagers foot injury during a patrol here, July 29. The Marines and sailors of 1/6 took part in the initial offensive to loosen the insurgents grip here, and the battalion has now returned, giving many within the unit a chance to see progress since their last deployment.

041227-M-2353F-001. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030418-M-1112H-197. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030615-M-4066S-010. Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040813-M-0706S-029. Base: Nassir Wa Al Salam State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050918-A-7347D-069. Base: Moraqkhja Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Europe

060110-A-3283V-033. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Diwaniyah State: Qadisiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070315-M-0460B-026. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Ferris State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A group of Iraqi children enjoy a conversation with a US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), as he guards a perimeter in the town of Qalat Sukkar, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A child wounded in Afghanistan's civil war wears stickers bearing the insignia of the 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron on her shirt during a medical evacuation flight from Islamabad, Pakistan, to Rhein-Main Air Base, West Germany, aboard a 17th Military Airlift Squadron C-141B Starlifter aircraft. Twenty-four rebels wounded in Afghanistan's civil war are being evacuated to hospitals in Europe and the United States for donated medical treatment. Country: Unknown

BEDUINOS EN EL DESIERTO. Location: EXTERIOR. QUSEIR AMRA.

A U.S. Army Soldier from the 405th Civil Affairs Battalion arm-wrestles an Afghan during a patrol to check on conditions in the village of Yawez, Wardak province, Afghanistan, Feb. 17, 2010. The people in this village are always up for a friendly challenge.

041231-M-8397B-013. Base: Kufa State: Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060426-A-4576B-124. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kormana State: Paktia Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MOUNTAIN

PINJADOO, Helmand province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Nasrullah Sadat, an interpreter with Jump Platoon, Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, speaks with Afghan boys after an improvised explosive device detonated nearby in Pinjadoo, Afghanistan, Sept. 6, 2010. No Marines or Afghans were injured by the explosion. Jump Platoon investigated the area around the blast for secondary IEDs and to gather information.

051113-A-7186W-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tall Afar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041202-M-2353F-010. Base: Iraqi / Syrian Border State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Civilians watch as Marines from Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU SOC) secure an airfield once held by the Iraqi 10th Armored Division in Qalat Sukar, Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jeremy Fehr, right, from the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agri-Business Development Team (ADT), speaks with Afghan children and their grandfather Oct. 24, 2010, during a veterinary outreach sustainment program in Marawara District, Kunar province, Afghanistan. Local veterinarians treated nearly 200 goats, sheep and cattle. The Iowa ADT provided financial support, quality control and security during the event.

030413-M-0175R-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030402-M-8539K-010. Base: Ash Shumali Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Mar Div DM

040531-M-0706S-016. Base: Al Shahabi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1/5, B Co.

Afghanistan, Kabul

011223-F-3961R-013. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM 2001 Base: Mazar-E Sharif State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

041201-M-6795S-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM State: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

060506-A-0527A-002. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Army Air Field Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030404-M-6538A-029. Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

Baghdad,Iraq; April 6, 2003-Iraqi civilians, shell shocked, abandon their homes and neighborhood after surviving a firefight between US Marines and Iraqi troops loyal to Saddam Hussein. US Marines from the 3rd Battalion engaged the Iraqi troops in battle at the Diyala bridge just 9 miles from downtown Baghdad during the initial invasion of Iraq. After a firefight that lasted two days the American troops rolled into downtown Baghdad. US Marines are seen here overrunning the positions held by Iraqi troops during the battle.

030517-M-5972A-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Samwah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030324-M-6270B-027. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050901-A-0527A-009. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Army Air Field Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

070102-A-9326H-009. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Shamal State: Khowst Province Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

A Young Boy Watches a U.S. Marine Cross a Field in Afghanistan's Helmand Province

070318-M-2819S-033. Complete Scene Caption: An Iraqi boy watches as a member of the Fallujah Iraqi Police passes out school supplies. The Fallujah Iraqi Police and Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, and 1ST Division of the Iraqi Army supply the Anbar School with toys and school supplies as a combined forces exercise on March 8, 2007. Regimental Combat Team 6 is deployed with II Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar Province of Iraq (Multi-National Forces-West) to develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi Reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by CPL. Neill A. Sevelius) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2-2-1 MTT

041120-M-2583M-057. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040630-A-1581H-017. Base: Al Hillah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051226-A-7969G-054. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Cooke State: Taji Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A490CA

030408-M-5607A-012. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050902-A-3749Z-001. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Orgun-E State: Paktia Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST BN (ABN) 508TH INF

030823-F-6844O-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060427-N-2911P-098. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kamaliya Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051222-A-2718K-048. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030413-M-0175R-012. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Local Afghan village elders sit in on a scheduled council meeting with U.S. Marine Capt. Kenneth J. Del Mazo, Commanding Officer Battery I, 3rd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment (3/10), held at the local administrative building outside Patrol Base Mahafiz in Shorshorak, Afghanistan, April 29, 2010. The Marines and sailors assigned to 3/10 are currently deployed to Afghanistan in support of the International Security Assistance Force.

Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers stretch before taking part in water polo practice at Camp Shorebak on Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, April 7, 2010. U.S. Marines and the ANA are creating the first water polo team in Helmand province to improve morale, bridge cultural gaps and support the International Security Assistance Force.

030609-M-5366H-004. Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 40599

051215-A-7359K-037. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Warrior State: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

020510-F-1644L-004. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kabul Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030410-M-9792P-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

030408-F-8362B-038. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: Free Iraqi Forces

Afghan children watch US Marines conduct a mounted patrol with Light Armored Vehicles through a village near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030823-F-6844O-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

US Soldier in Refugee Camp

Afghan day laborers work to fill sandbags right outside Forward Operating Base Geronimo, Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 14, 2010.

030430-M-5882G-024. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Hillah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060110-A-3283V-012. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Diwaniyah State: Qadisiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A member of the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) is reunited with his family following his return from deployment in the Persian gulf area during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Fort Devens State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

051215-A-6365W-186. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Loyalty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3 ID

Muslim residents from the town of Jusici, Bosnia-Herzegovina, gather outside before receiving their new Serbian ID cards. Operation JOINT GUARD, 10 March 1997. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Jusici Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

040329-M-5753Q-115. Base: Hadithah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051215-A-2718K-019. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

061113-N-2416B-003. Base: Persian Gulf

Pashtun men talk to a UN assessment team and Pakistan army escort, upper Allai Valley, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan

PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan -U.S. Army Sgt. Terrance Ray reads a book to local children while on a mission in Orgun, Paktika province, Afghanistan, April 11. Ray, a native of Bennettsville, S.C., is a member of the security force element for the Paktika Provincial Reconstruction Teams Orgun detachment. The PRT is a joint task force whose mission is to help legitimize the government of Afghanistan through development, governance and agricultural initiatives. Ray is deployed from Battery B, 1st Battalion, 178rd Field Artillery Regiment of the South Carolina National Guard.

030404-M-5150A-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Tank BN

Members of the Anti-Taliban Forces (ATF) have lunch at an observation post site where Marines were dispatched to destroy unexploded munitions dropped by coalition air sorties near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Mr. Les Brownlee, right, the Under Secretary of the US Army (USA), is shown the renovations being made at the Pole-E-Charki School by the Coalition Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force in Kabul, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kabul Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

BEDUINOS EN EL DESIERTO. Location: EXTERIOR. QUSEIR AMRA.

051215-A-6365W-188. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Loyalty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3 ID

030502-F-7924J-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040511-M-8683D-004. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Fob Surobi Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 3d BN 6th Mar

A Kurdish child eats some food as he sits with members of his family in a tent at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Iraq border. Thousands of Kurds fled into Turkey after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camp to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Isikveren Country: Turkey (TUR)

030413-M-0175R-047. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050620-A-6108G-658. Base: Erbil Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: ACoE

030518M-0367H-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070527-A-1906W-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Area Office Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE

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050718-A-9039F-069. Subject Operation/Series: SWARMER Base: Samarra State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION (AA)

041202-M-2353F-020. Base: Iraqi / Syrian Border State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040114-A-1915L-014. Base: Camp Santiago State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

050226-F-8584G-044. Base: Al Iskandariyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Bangladesh Army soldiers conduct checkpoint training during exercise Garuda Canti Dharma II / Multinational Peacekeeping Exercise 22 at Pusat Misi Pemeliharaan, Indonesia, July 19, 2022. Checkpoints aim to provide a safe area to protect a location from outside influence and to deny hostile opportunities. Exercise Garuda Canti Dharma II enables instructors from multiple countries to integrate and provide cross education, strengthening cohesion between allies and partners.

030413-M-0175R-067. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050925-A-2662K-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Prosperity State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: PSYOPS

040712-M-5505M-015. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Disturbance. Attack on an Arab bus July 4, 1938. Casualties by bomb explosion. 1938, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Picture Frames At The Amna Suraka (Red Security) Museum In Iraq

Tourists Being Guarded By The Military At The Walled City Of Barakesh Which Is Cover With Rubbish Yemen

050826-A-1327A-042. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Salerno State: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST BDE 82ND ABN

U.S. Army and Air Force personnel and local children play soccer at the Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team Forward Operating Base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Nov. 9, 2007. The Nangarhar PRT is a joint team of U.S. Air Force Airman, Army Soldiers and representatives from the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, responsible for helping the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan improve security, governance and promote reconstruction.

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Seth Curry, Baker Company's executive officer and native of Toulon, Ill., secures the entrance to a qalas in the village of Sader Kheyl, located near Combat Outpost Rahman Kheyl March 17. Baker Company is part of the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Gold Geronimo.

041208-M-6795S-007. Base: Sperah Village State: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

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