Community Engagement in Conflict Zones

Photos showcase military forces engaging with local communities, including children and families, during humanitarian efforts and community council meetings in Iraq and Afghanistan.

060430-A-6365W-157. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Remagen State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

030413-M-0175R-105. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050826-A-1327A-057. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Salerno State: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST BDE 82ND ABN

U.S. Army Soldiers from Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Field Artillery, 3rd Infantry Division hand out supplies to villagers during a medical operation in Sabah Nissan, Iraq, March 27, 2008.

U.S. Marine Capt. Kenneth J. Del Mazo (left), Commanding Officer Battery I, 3rd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment (3/10), interacts with the local village elders during a scheduled council meeting 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.

050712-A-8255A-119. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Showka Village State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030330-M-2176J-139. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050901-A-0527A-024. Subject Operation/Series: SWARMER Base: Samarra State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION (AA)

060430-A-6365W-157. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Remagen State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

070323-M-6412C-012. Complete Scene Caption: A local Iraqi family sits outside of their house as Marines with 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines search the surrounding area for Anti Iraqi Force activity during Operation Zaidon II on March 23, 2007. Task Force 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines is conducting Operation Zaidon II in Zaidon, Iraq to clear the city of Anti Iraqi Forces and deny them further use of the area in the future. Regimental Combat Team 6 is deployed with Multi National Forces-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar Province of Iraq to develop Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by CPL. Samuel D. Corum) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: ZAIDON Base: Zaidon State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: RCT-6

020716-F-0201H-022. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kabul Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030404-M-6538A-007. Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

030331-F-5918G-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060318-A-0527A-001. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Airfield Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

051204-A-7969G-031. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Cooke State: Taji Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1-320CA

070527-A-1906W-003. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Area Office Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE

030328-M-4779G-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Marjah residents place bags of fertilizer onto a wheel barrow at the Civil-Military Operations Center at Camp Hansen, Marjah, Afghanistan, April 25. The food zone program, led by the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team, has distributed more than 1,066 packages of fertilizer and seeds to farmers throughout northern Marjah. This program, along with other programs led by the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team, assists farmers cope with a harsh harvest season, as well as providing an alternative to harvesting poppy, a major source of cash flow for Taliban forces.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE CAFERETTA, NIMRUZ PROVINCE, Afghanistan - An Afghan man listens as a member of the Afghan National Police speaks during a shura here Jan. 9. Third Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment recently blended the old with the new when they hosted a large shura Jan. 9, where tribal elders from the city of Delaram, surrounding villages including those from towns situated in the nearby provinces of Farah and Helmand came to talk with one another about local concerns and hear from the local government.

041231-M-8397B-064. Base: Kufa State: Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

031025-F-7234P-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 315th Tactical Psyop Company, 3r

An Afghan from the Kohi Sofi District repairs an engine used to dig a water well, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kohi Sofi Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030419-M-5607A-034. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Nu'Maniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

021026-A-3497H-058. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Nejhab Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Kurdish refugees board a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter for transfer from their mountain camp to a newly established tent city at Zakhu. The tent city was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ)

Vietnam, Work, Smuggling On The Chinese Border. Heavily Laden Porter Crossing To Trade.

040712-M-5505M-021. Base: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030401-M-477G-021. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030403-M-9792P-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

041231-M-8397B-034. Base: Kufa State: Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041105-N-4614W-018. Base: Samarra Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060519-A-6311S-057. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Abu Ghraib Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 463 MP CO, 376 BTL/ 49 BRG, MNCI

050909-A-1327A-081. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURIING FREEDOM Base: Bak State: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST BDE 82ND ABN

020416-F-1644L-014. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Air Base Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

Afghan children in the village of Punji Janubi in Shin Kay District, Afghanistan stand under a tree during an elders meeting with U.S. military forces on September 16, 2010. The purpose of the mission is to show military presence in support of security for Afghan nationals during the election period.

030121-F-7203T-054. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Aroki State: Kapisa Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030424-M-5150A-026. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Tank BN

051215-A-7359K-033. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Warrior State: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

030322-M-5150A-037. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

070318-M-2819S-025. Complete Scene Caption: A member of the Fallujah Iraqi Police pass 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

030404-M-5753Q-066. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Az Zubayr Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

030821-M-7837W-067. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030408-M-5607A-033. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030621-M-2081S-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Hillah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1 Bn, 4th Marines

050718-A-9039F-069. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF-76

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Sienna G. De Santes, left, with a female engagement team supporting 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, helps give a medical class during a health initiative in Sangin, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Jan. 4, 2011. During the health initiative, local health care providers were trained to treat sick and injured Afghans.

030818-M-7837W-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Commando Country: Kuwait (KWT)

030404-M-5753Q-068. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Az Zubayr Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

050821-A-6108G-101. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

SGT. James King, 10th Military Police Company, US Army, checks the identification of two Somalian women at the Mogadishu airport. Subject Operation/Series: UNOSOM II Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

DM-ST-86-07527. Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

050918-A-7347D-062. Base: Moraqkhja Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Europe

040325-M-5753Q-001. Base: Rawah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Afghan militiamen prepare for a combat operation in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan

030323-M-5753Q-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Az Zubayr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050905-A-5679R-011. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Airfield Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 173RD ARIBORNE BATTALION

050817-A-0527A-007. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

A Belgian soldier, in Somalia in support of OPERATION CONTINUE HOPE walks through a market. Subject Operation/Series: CONTINUE HOPE Base: Mogambo Village Country: Somalia (SOM)

050918-A-7347D-090. State: Parwan Province Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

031112-F-1798W-013. Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030821-M-7837W-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050421-A-6108G-198. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Dohuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

021130-A-5868H-036. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Lowa State: Kohi Sofi Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

041209-M-0173F-004. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040612-M-5555L-074. Base: Camp Ali (AR RAMADI) State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060324-A-4576B-062. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Paktia Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MOUNTAIN

Gang violence

Kurdish men sit with their families' belongings after arriving at a refugee camp on the Turkish-Iraqi border. Troops from the U.S. and other coalition nations have come to the region as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Cukurca Country: Turkey(TUR)

As the first LAV-25 (Light Armored Vehicle) rolls off into the distance, an Afghan family watches as Marines pass by during 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) Scene Major Command Shown: 26 MEU

050628-A-1566H-047. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM State: Babil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041115-A-1067B-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Karmah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051215-A-6524C-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NONE

Iraq, Al Khidr, Jackson Main Supply Road, September 20, 2003. Roadblock of the Anti Tank Group stationed at the camp Al Aser Al Jadid too Al Khidr. Every vehicle is stopped and checked for license plate and papers to see if it is stolen. People also look for weapons. For this you can use a small metal detector to search for the person. The local police receive instruction in this to be able to operate independently at a subsequent RoadBlock. After explanations of the Marines, the local police are fully involved in the promotion and monitors the Marines only. Iraq, Al Khidr, Jackson Main Supply Road, September 20, 2003. Roadblock of the Anti Tank Group stationed at the camp Al Aser Al Jadid too Al Khidr. Every vehicle is stopped and checked for license plate and papers to see if it is stolen. OO Note: The description with this photo is the original description by the photographer. At a later stage this description will be revised if necessary. Iraq, Al Khidr, Jackson Main Supply Road, S

040121-F-1798W-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Straight on shot of Somali Faction Leader COL Jess, at left with hat and cane, walking outside the Joint Task Force Headquarters in Kismayo, Somalia with his entourage. He had just completed a meeting with BGEN Lawson Magruder, USA, Joint Task Force Commander in Kismayo. BGEN Magruder, (not shown) is from the 10th Mountain Division Fort Drum, New York. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Kismayo Country: Somalia (SOM)

Villagers from Gofat Est, a village located just north of Agadez, Niger, attend a community event with U.S. military personnel assigned to the 409th Air Expeditionary Group, May 3, 2022. Niger is a vital partner of U.S. AFRICOM, U.S. Air Forces Africa, and the 409th AEG in maintaining peacekeeping operations, foreign humanitarian assistance, infectious disease control, and building partner capacity. Relationships built during these events provide the opportunity for increased engagement and partnership with the community to increase stability, enable local governments, and improve the quality of life for civilians.

040606-M-5555L-044. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Hurricane Point State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Army desert training at Fort Irwin

VIETNAM - The horticultural village of Sa Dec. Located in southern Vietnam in the Mekong Delta region, Sa Dec is known as the birthplace of writer Marguerite Duras. There is her autobiographical novel The Lover, award Goncourt 1984, in which she delivers the story of her first love in the heart of French Indochina."Garden of Cochin China" is Sa Dec was baptized in the mid-nineteenth century. Bonard, then French governor of Cochin China, saw a land nestled between two main arms of the Mekong and a favorable climate for floriculture. He therefore brought seeds from many species of France.It is six o'clock in the morning when the city comes to life. We start working before the big heat. At sunrise, 300 hectares of chrysanthemums, marigolds, dahlias, hydrangeas, roses, bonsai and others are revealed. At each plot, various smells are interfering with us. We are immersed in the scenery of a film by Hayao Miyazaki.Day after day, trucks and boats queue on the dock to load the more than 12 m

030322-M-6270B-022. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030828-F-2185G-009. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

021026-A-3497H-038. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Nejhab Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Iraq, Ninawa province, Tall Afar on 2022-10-17. Report on explosive remnants of war in Iraq, one of the most contaminated countries in the world after forty years of conflict, instability and especially the recent occupation of the country by the Islamic State group, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention prohibiting the acquisition, production, stockpiling and use of mines. Here, Salih, a teenage shepherd who lived through the Daesh occupation and whose house still bears bullet holes. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Irak, province de Ninive, Tel Afar le 2022-10-17. Reportage sur les restes explosifs de guerre en Irak, lun des pays les plus contamines au monde suite a quarante ans de conflits, dinstabilité et surtout par loccupation recente du pays par le groupe Etat islamique, a l'occasion des 25 ans du Traite d'Ottawa, la Convention sur linterdiction des mines antipersonnel prohibant lacquisition, la production, le sto

Hazara man, (Shi'ite Muslims who are 10% minority population) is tortured and interrogated by Afghan Government coalition forces.

030423-M-3692C-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A Stack of Bottled Water Stands in Front of Tents at a U.S. Marine Corps Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan's Helmand Province

An Iraqi girl peeks out of a broken classroom window to watch as U.S. Army Soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division deliver new desks to her school in Nawaful, Iraq, March 25, 2008.

A Djiboutian elder looks on as U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Robert A. Harris, commander, 194th Engineer Brigade (194 EB) speaks to local community leaders near a well-drilling site in Djibouti, Feb. 20, 2009. Brig. Gen. Harris was on a five-day trip to Djibouti to visit his troops stationed here. The well was being drilled by the 755th Well Drilling Detachment of the 194 E.B., a part of the Tennessee Army National Guard.

041211-M-2583M-051. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070315-M-0460B-021. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Ferris State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Jerusalem area and occupied territories

030419-M-5607A-052. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Nu'Maniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Ottoman archer riding and shooting on horseback

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Michael Butler, of Charlie Company, 415th Civil Affairs Battalion, counts out Iraqi dinar for an Iraqi man filing a damages claim at the Ninewah Provincial Joint Communications Center in Mosul, Iraq, July 19, 2008.

091031-F-4314C-054: PAKTYA PROVINCE, Afghanistan-- Local reporters interview Afghan National Security Forces leaders of Paktya, Paktika, Khowst and Ghazni provinces and the Combined Joint Task Force-82 and Regional Command-East deputy commander during a press conference at Forward Operating Base Thunder Oct. 31. The ANSF leaders shared information about Regional Command-East security plans and combined operations for the Nov. 7 Afghan presidential run-off election.

DF-ST-88-03804. Subject Operation/Series: SOLID SHIELD Base: Ilanga Country: Honduras (HND)

of 2