Medical Support in Conflict

Images depicting military personnel providing medical assistance to local civilians, highlighting humanitarian efforts in war zones.

Anti-Gaddafi troops Ras Lanouf

FOR SAMA (2019), directed by EDWARD WATTS and WAAD AL-KATEAB.

Army medical personnel treat injured person, earthquake, nepal, asia Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox

020716-F-0201H-047. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kabul Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

060428-N-2911P-008. Base: Kamaliya Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Major General (MGEN) Herbert A. Altschuler, Commander, US Army (USA) Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (USACAPOC), studies the ceiling of a room while speaking to USA Captain (CPT) Jennifer Vaden, right, with the 622nd Engineer Battalion and a local Afghan man about reconstruction work being done at the Artificial Insemination Complex in Kabul, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kabul Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

A Air Force Major accompany two Afghanistani refugees walking away from the aircraft that brought them to Germany to receive specialized medical treatment. Afghanistani refugees were treated under the auspices of the McCullen amendment, which allows DoD to make available non-combative goods for humanitarian projects. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Kandahar city, Southern Afghanistan. 31st August 2021. Taliban fighters and their supporters celebrated across Afghanistan with the final departure of all U.S. troops. Brining to an end of 20 years of foreign military presence.

Haji Mohammed Khan, district administrator of Nawa, applauds as Nafus Khan, Nawa's police commander, shakes hands with Lt. Col. Matt Baker, commanding officer of 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment after Baker places a ceremonial headdress on the police commander's head. Baker and other Marines of 1/3 were guests of honor at Nawa's first Islamic New Year celebration in years, which was held at the district's open-air bazaar and attended by nearly 1,000 citizens. It was the first time in years such a large celebration has been held publicly since Marines and Afghan forces flushed the Taliban from the district last July.

041209-M-6795S-008. Base: Sperah State: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

070317-M-2819S-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2-2-1 MTT

March 26, 2020 Sylhet, Bangladesh: Sylhet Metropolitan Police raising awarness and providing sanitizer among to mass people as a precautionary measure against the spread of the COVID-19 in the street of Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Bosnian Women of the town of Jusici, who disagree with the recently proposed resettlement deal, surround US Army Major (MAJ) John Kershaw, 1ST Armor Division Liaison to the Russian Brigade. MAJ Kershaw uses and translator to discuss the details of the proposal. A US Army photographer stands atop a truck in the background and documents the scene. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Jusici Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Local Afghan men attend a shura in the Nawa District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on July 23, 2009. The shura was held by Provincial Governor Gulab Mangal, with hopes of re-establishing the Afghan Government in the Nawa District. Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 3 (-REIN), 2D Marine Expeditionary Brigade - Afghanistan, are deployed in support of NATO's International Security Assistance Force and will participate in counter insurgency operations and training and mentoring the Afghan National Security Forces to improve security and stability in Afghanistan.

In Raqqa, Syria on January 17, 2026, local civilians are seen welcoming Syrian Army soldiers following their deployment across dozens of villages in northeast Syria. The troops moved into the area after the withdrawal of Kurdish SDF forces, Raqqa, Raqqa, Syria

Joint Readiness Training Center at Ft. Polk

031203-F-0981H-032. Base: Coalition Provisional Authority State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CPA/Strategic Communications

041211-M-2583M-052. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040921-M-5901F-025. Base: Jabella State: Babil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030627-M-5505M-020. Base: Al Diwanyah State: Al Qadisiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd Bn 5th Marines

Soldier in traditional dress, Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan

030413-M-0175R-107. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Protests in Cairo

060526-A-3749Z-014. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Charikar State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

050918-A-5679R-009. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Zhari State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Soldiers, journalist and Kurds gather on a hillside for a briefing at a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multination effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

020213-M-9902V-013. Base: Camp Hijudai State: Oita Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Major Command Shown: 3 MEF

rescue team carrying Rail accident body on stretcher, kalyan, mumbai, maharashtra, India, Asia Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

The Musa Qaleh District Governor, Governor Naimatullah cuts the ribbon with the Deputy Provincial Governor, Governor Sattar during the opening ceremony of the new Afghan Uniformed Police Headquarters building in Musa Qaleh, Jan. 22.

050419-A-9889G-006. Base: Tikrit State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051015-A-2098S-033. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Marez State: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 172ND SBCT

Prisoners at Dade County Correctional Facility, FL

041211-M-0036Y-010. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030412-M-9792P-009. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

The My Lai massacre, was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Son Tinh District, South Vietnam, on 16 March 1968 during the Vietnam War. Between 347 and 504 unarmed people were killed by U.S. Army soldiers.

DM-ST-88-07713. Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR Base: El Hamman Country: Egypt (EGY)

An Afghanistani child sits on the hospital bus filled with his country men on stretcher during a stop in Germany before continuing on to the United States for further treatment of their war inflicted injuries. Afghanistani refugees were treated under the auspices of the McCullen amendment, which allows DoD to make available non-combative goods for humanitarian projects. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

The Deputy Provincial Governor, Governor Sattar speaks during a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of the new Afghan Uniformed Police Headquarters building in Musa Qaleh, Jan. 22. Following the ribbon cutting ceremony the Musa Qaleh District Governor, Governor Naimatullah led Sattar on a tour of the new AUP headquarters building followed by a patrol through the bazaar. Marines with 1st Battalion 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 2, worked with AUP to provide security during the patrol.

Indian police watching for security in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

A Marine talks to a Lebanese boy near Checkpoint 76 while participating in a multinational peacekeeping operation. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

The senior leadership from the Afghan National Army and police, along with the commanding officer of regimental combat team 2, share a feast with the elders of Musa Qaleh, to discuss their future plans in providing security for the local Afghans, and to synchronize their efforts with the needs of the people, April 2.

030516M-0367H-011. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd BN 7th MAR

030404-M-6538A-010. Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

Lt. Col. Matt Baker, commanding officer of 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and Sgt. Maj. Dwight D. Jones, sergeant major of 1/3, walk through the large open-air bazaar in Nawa district during a celebration of Islamic New Year March 21. They were joined by nearly 1,000 Nawa citizens for the holiday event, the first of it s kind in years held publicly in Nawa since Marines and Afghan forces flushed the Taliban from the district last July.

060417-A-5745M-049. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN

Rwandan refugees curiously observe cargo off-load operations of a C-141 Starlifter aircraft from the 452nd Avionics Maintenance Wing (AMW) Air Force Reserve (AFRES), March AFB, Calif. Subject Operation/Series: SUPPORT HOPE Base: Goma Country: Zaire (ZAR)

040126-F-5435-032. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A Kosovo Force (KFOR) Russian soldier speaks to several Albanian from an angry mob, carrying the Albanian National Flag, near the town of Domorovce, Kosovo. After two Serbian men disappeared, the Serbians believe the Albanians abducted the men and began to make threats and road obstructions to stop the Albanians from traveling safely through town. The Albanians began to form a mob to confront the Serbians, until United States Army and Russian KFOR troops made a wall between the opposing sides. Task Force Falcon, Operation Joint Guardian, 15 August 2000. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARDIAN Base: Domorovce State: Kosovo Country: Yugoslavia (YUG)

040612-M-5555L-019. Base: Camp Ali (AR RAMADI) State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060402-A-5745M-017. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

050918-A-5679R-005. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Zhari State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

U.S. Army soldiers from the 409th Air Expeditionary Groups (AEG) civil affairs team, along with two soldiers from the Nigerien Armed Forces (French language: Forces Armées Nigeriennes - FAN) civil affairs team, discuss village stabilization and the progress of a previous water restoration project with the village chief and his assistant chief in Alwat, Niger, May 9, 2022. These meetings, facilitated by the 409th AEGs civil affairs team, strengthen the FANs partnership will local villages, enabling strong rapport building and engagement continuity between the Government of Niger and its citizens.

Guards at the Sultan's Palace at Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Beirut - Annex Office Building - 1989, United States photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings

050817-A-0527A-021. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

U.S. Armys STAFF Sergeant Demario, 10th Special Forces Group Airborne, demonstrates to his students one way to pull a land mine during training near Lukavak. As part of Operation Joint Endeavor, the U.S. Army's 10th Special Forces Group in cooperation with the State Department, RONCO and the former warring factions embarked on a mission of humanitarian de-mining. The training, including leadership, planning, different techniques in mine detection, mine disposal through detonation and medical triage, was accomplished at four different sites for Bosnia-Herzegovina nationals. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

050821-A-6108G-270. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Dohuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050918-A-5679R-015. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Zhari State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

DN-SC-89-03237. Base: Nouakchott Country: Mauritania (MRT)

040718-F-0193C-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060315-A-5745M-030. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

051215-A-1211S-019. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Loyalty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A

040906-F-3924S-011. Subject Operation/Series: OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Citizen, Imola, Historical reenactment

Knight of the Knights Hospitallers

0210925-M-1103B-032. Base: Chittagong Country: Bangladesh (BGD) Scene Major Command Shown: VMGR-152

Deir el-Bahari, Egypt. Temple guard, armed policeman on the base a statue, Luxor, Egypt, Africa

Dead swordfish in the old town of Mogadishu, Somalia, Africa

U.S. Army Spc. Steve Stewart of Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division ,a native of Pittsburgh, Penn., attempts to show a group of Iraqi teens how to play fooseball as his unit and an element of Iraqi National Police conduct Operation Boar Bobcats, a cordon and search mission in Muhallah 762 in Oubaidy, eastern Baghdad, Sep. 28, 2008. The teens scored against him seconds later.

Police personnel search dead bodies, earthquake, nepal, asia Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox

070527-A-1906W-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Area Office Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE

Ahmed Alasa, the schoolhouse headmaster of Gofat Est, discusses the positive impact of increased water access with the 409th Air Expeditionary Groups civil affairs team in his schoolhouse, located just north of Agadez, Niger, 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.

030424-M-8658H-010. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: I MEF

Annalena Baerbock (Buendnis 90 Die Gruenen), Bundesaussenministerin, aufgenommen im Rahmen eines Besuches der Konfliktregion in Netifot, 13.10.2023. Baerbock ist das erste Regierungsmitglied der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, dass nach den Terrorattacken de

070313-M-0948M-055. Base: Camp Blue Diamond State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7TH IRAQI ARMY DIVISION

040609-M-5150A-080. Base: Hit State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A Kurdish man flashes a victory sign as he holds up an American flag patch given to him by a serviceman at a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Afghan military members and religious leaders celebrate the stand up a new wing at Kandahar Airfield Oct. 5, 2009. The wing is the second wing to stand up as a part of the Afghanistan National Army Air Corps. The primary missions of the new wing will be moving troops and supplies around the region and providing support to detachments at smaller cities located around the region

030419-M-5607A-038. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Nu'Maniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051002-A-4339E-003. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 48TH BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM

Policemen inspecting site of bomb blast also large number of people gathered to look at the site at Zaveri Bazaar in busy Kalbadevi area Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra India On August 26th 2003 Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

060315-A-5745M-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

Soldiers in traditional dress, Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan

030411-M-5654R-001. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Highway 8 Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MWSS-373

040531-F-1351B-010. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Colombo, Sri Lanka. 15th May 2022. The disabled war heros tent. The protest continues amidst curfew and emergency law with the security forces allowed to shoot in case of violence. People gathered in large numbers on Vesak poya day at Galle face where the main protest has being held named Gota Go Gama for over a month.

Captain (CPT) John H. Nedeau, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines Battalion Surgeon, right and Commander John M. Dawson, Assistant Battalion Surgeon, left, pose for a group photo with the medical staff of Al Numaniyah's local health clinic in Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Numaniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Marine Corps recruits with Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, receive a brief on the uniform code of military justice at Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego, Dec. 12, 2022. Recruits were checked for contraband, given haircuts, made phone calls home, and issued gear.

Joint Readiness Training Center at Ft. Polk

B. Munkherdene guides a young archer as he draws a bow during a Naadam festival held before the last day of field training exercises for Gobi Wolf 2022 in Bayankhongor, Mongolia, Sept. 9. Gobi Wolf is a multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief engagement between military components of the government of Mongolia and U.S. Army Pacific. Participating countries also include Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the United Kingdom and Vietnam. (Alaska National Guard photo by Victoria Granado)

051015-A-2098S-076. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Marez State: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

050425-N-6501M-011. Base: Fob Hotel, Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 240th MP

041220-F-5276B-067. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050821-A-6108G-205. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Erbil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040927-A-7306A-034. Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

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