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Military Engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan

Images of military interactions with local populations in Iraq and Afghanistan, reflecting on humanitarian efforts amidst operational duties.

Adjabiya Libya Local people prepare the guns to fight Gaddafi trops.

040615-M-5555L-014. Base: Camp Ali State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060516-A-4576B-026. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Ghazni Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

DF-ST-89-01815. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: West Germany (FRG)

UAE, Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed Research Center, Emirates Police Museum, interior

Dana, Jordan. A ranger looking out across the Wadi Dana valley.

Iraq, Kirkuk province, Bashir village on 2022-10-19. 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. This is Handicap International's (Humanity and Inclusion) mine clearance training camp in the village of Bashir where mine clearers practice in real conditions. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Irak, province de Kirkouk, Bashir village le 2022-10-19. 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

Iraq, Kirkuk province, Bashir village on 2022-10-19. 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. This is Handicap International's (Humanity and Inclusion) mine clearance training camp in the village of Bashir where mine clearers practice in real conditions. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Irak, province de Kirkouk, Bashir village le 2022-10-19. 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

031112-F-1798W-007. Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070313-M-0948M-044. Base: Camp Blue Diamond State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7TH IRAQI ARMY DIVISION

070326-M-2819S-012. Complete Scene Caption: Iraqi Soldiers, Iraqi Police, and Marines search Iraqi civilians that enter the Fallujah City Council on March 26, 2007. Regimental Combat Team 6 Personal Security Detail travels by convoy to the Fallujah City Council Meeting to discuss future operations. 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: RCT-6

Disposal of a (exercise) injured.

030407-M-0175R-114. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050421-A-6108G-208. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Dohuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050117-A-5043I-093. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: IRAQI ARMY

040506-F-2902B-003. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: N/A

070322-M-9876R-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Haditha State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: IP

041121-M-2583M-017. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Member of the desert police at Al Khazneh (The Treasury), Petra, Jordan

JOR, Jordan : Guard man of the desert Castle Qasr al-Kharana, caravansery from 710 aC. at desert road 40. |

041124-M-2583M-070. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Amman, Jordan: July, 1958 Men and soldiers gathered on a street intently watching something in a storefront window, possibly news reports of the overthrow of King Faissal by Saddam Hussein in neighboring Iraq.

11/30/1921. Melilla. In Cabao de Agua. The military commander D. Luis Baeza, the police lieutenant Mr. Avantos and other officers during a meal to which the chief Sidi Miscrin was invited by the Notables of Quebdana.

Mossad incognito spy wearing mask standing proud in front of Israel flag, feeling pride in serving country. Israeli secret agent in war control room crossing arms, representing country

051219-A-7969G-017. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Cooke State: Taji Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A490CA

030824-M-7837W-031. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Blaire Airfield, Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

The Alwat village chief and assistant chief discuss the village economy and the progress of a previous water restoration project with the 409th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG) and Nigerian Armed Forces (French language: Forces Armées Nigeriennes - FAN) civil affairs teams 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.

011216-F-3961R-006. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM 2001 Base: Mazar-E Sharif State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Kurdish men sit in the grass to listen to a briefing 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 COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060824-N-9076B-229. Base: Kupang Country: Indonesia (IDN)

An Afghan boy petitions U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Christopher Bones, a rifleman with 3rd Platoon, India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and 21-year-old native of Brookings, Ore., for candy after receiving a water bottle from another Marine during a security patrol here, April 28, 2012. On the patrol, the Marines gave a battlefield tour of the Safar region to their replacements with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment. After arriving in Helmand province's Garmsir district in October 2011, the 'America's Battalion' Marines are nearing the end of their seven-month deployment. During the deployment, they aided Afghan National Security Forces in assuming lead security responsibility of Garmsir, developing and expanding legitimate Afghan governance by defeating insurgent forces and securing the people of Garmsir.

ENTREGA DE PIEZAS AL JUEZ - FOTO AÑOS 60. Location: CACERIA. PROVINCIA. Guadalajara. SPANIEN.

060423-M-7416H-018. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 14-Jan

Africa's oldest civil war is being fought by men like these

Ahmed Alasa, the schoolhouse headmaster of Gofat Est, listens to an interpreter during a discussion with the 409th Air Expeditionary Groups civil affairs team in his schoolhouse, located just north of Agadez, Niger, regarding the positive impact of increased water access, 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.

LCPL Clennon Roe of Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24) makes a sketch from a vandalized mural of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in a former Iraqi army compound. Troops from the U.S. and other coalition nations are in Dahuk for Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Dahuk Country: Iraq(IRQ)

030424-M-3692C-012. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Joint Readiness Training Center at Ft. Polk

031105-F-1798W-014. Base: Al Hawijah State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

020802-A-6042E-016. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

040718-F-5789F-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050821-A-6108G-103. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070313-M-0948M-045. Base: Camp Blue Diamond State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7TH IRAQI ARMY DIVISION

060526-A-3749Z-052. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Charikar State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

Iraqi soldiers eat lunch at their dining facility, at Camp Taji, near Baghdad, Iraq, July 12, 2009. This dining facility is run exclusively by the Iraqi Army with some assistance from an American Airman, assigned to the Logistics Military Advisor Team.

Member of the desert police at Al Khazneh (The Treasury), Petra, Jordan

Iraq, Kirkuk province, Bashir village on 2022-10-19. 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. This is Handicap International's (Humanity and Inclusion) mine clearance training camp in the village of Bashir where mine clearers practice in real conditions. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Irak, province de Kirkouk, Bashir village le 2022-10-19. 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

060412-A-5745M-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN

Tourist police officer, Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt, Africa

070313-M-0948M-040. Base: Camp Blue Diamond State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7TH IRAQI ARMY DIVISION

An Iraqi civilian contractor helps to pass out food and supplies to civilians as residents wait to get supplies from Marines at Jolan Park, located the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Local civilians are being allowed to return to their homes following offensive operations to eradicate enemy forces within the city of Fallujah in support of continuing security and stabilization operations in the Al Anbar province, by units of the 1ST Marine Division, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040717-F-0193C-013. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

School girl in military uniform on the way to school, Damascus, Syria, Middle East

030415-M-8658H-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Basrah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060424-N-9500T-009. Base: Adangalina Country: Djibouti (DJI)

A Kurdish man sits in the grass after arriving 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 COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Pakistani policewoman on duty in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

US Air Force (USAF) Captain (CAPT) James Garman of the 455th Expeditionary Security Force Squadron (ESFS) teats a sick Afghan man during a Medical Civil Action Program (MEDCAP) at the village Aroki, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

040621-F-1351B-009. Base: Jordanian Royal Military Academy State: Amman Country: Jordan (JOR)

060121-A-3283V-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Diwaniyah State: Qadisiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Kandahar city, Southern Afghanistan. 2nd September 2021. The Taliban continued their victory celebrations with a military parade in the city of Kandahar. Kandahar is the spiritual city of the Taliban, and the group's capital during its 1996-2001 rule. Fighters waved white Taliban flags from Humvees and armored SUVs during the parade.

030322-M-6270B-024. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050821-A-6108G-250. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050816-A-1327A-016. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Ghazni Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 3/141ND INF REG

041213-M-3988H-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

David Haines (1970-2014) British aid worker captured by the Islamic State in early 2013 and later executed by beheading with his executioner, Mohammed Jassem Abdulkarim Emwazi (born 17 August 1988) known as Jihadi John.

040622-F-1351B-301. Base: Jordanian Royal Military Academy State: Amman Country: Jordan (JOR)

Afghanistan: Four armed men in cave, a fifth seated on rug eating. Man at mouth of cave points to an approaching missile. The reverse of anti-Taliban leaflet shows two men killed by the missile and the three remaining terrified.

Southern Palestine, Hebron, Beersheba and Gaza area. Beersheba, Abraham's Well. Gen. 2615. 1950, Israel, Beersheba

Locust plagues in Palestine. Methods of fighting the locust plague. Refuelling the flame-throwers. 1930

A French Foreign Legion flag is flown during the ceremony for the Battle of Camarone at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, April 30, 2022. The ceremony is in honor of the 65 French Foreign Legionnaires that fought bravely during the Battle of Camarone in 1863.

Double sided leaflet depicting the a U.S. aircraft dropping relief packages in Afghanistan. Dated 2001

DM-ST-86-07513. Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Ahmed Alasa, the schoolhouse headmaster of Gofat Est, listens to an interpreter from the 409th Air Expeditionary Groups civil affairs team, during a discussion on the positive impact of increased water access, 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.

060417-A-6311S-025. Base: Mahmudiya Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

031102-F-7234P-011. Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: 315th Psychological Operations C

020716-F-0201H-025. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kabul Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

040606-M-5555L-072. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Hurricane Point State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DF-ST-87-06954. Base: Incirlik Air Base, Adana Country: Turkey (TUR)

020528-M-9902V-085. Country: Indonesia (IDN) Scene Major Command Shown: 3 MEF

Soldiers with "C" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), Fort Bragg, North Carolina, search an Afghan locals car while participating in Operation Viper in the Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030615-M-5266H-006. Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 40599

030516M-0367H-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd BN 7th MAR

050821-A-6108G-168. Base: Dahuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041230-M-9015W-047. State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030604-M-5882G-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Hillah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050703-A-1906W-035. Subject Operation/Series: SWARMER Base: Samarra State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 4TH INFANTRY DIVISION

060417-A-5745M-009. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN

060322-A-7969G-004. Base: Bayji State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AB DIVISION

020816-N-5329L-009. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030518M-0367H-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Audience in retreat ceremony called lowering flag at India-Pakistan international border Wagah border Copyright: xHemangixNakwe/DinodiaxPhotox

040604-M-0706S-002. Base: Al Shahabi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1/5, B Co.

Igumen Ioasaph, a Russian Orthodox Monk assigned to Three Saints Church in Old Harbor discusses his life with Maj. Christina Rudolph, Commanding Officer of the 305th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, U.S. Army Pacific Support Unit, 9th Mission Support Command at Old Harbor, Kodiak Island, Alaska Aug. 2, 2022. Army Engineer Companies from Hawaii, Guam, America Samoa, and Alaska are constructing an access road from Old Harbor to a water source where a proposed hydroelectric plant will be built. (Photo by Sgt 1st Class Edwin Basa, 305th MPAD)

Jawan on duty at Nagrota camp Jammu India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Arab using two-way radio to communicate during parade of armed forces in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) David Bessho of the 360th Civil Affairs Brigade (CAB) meets with Afghan building contractors about the construction of a new school in the village of Chenari, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Chenari Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

041104-F-0524H-009. Base: Dequq State: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

031231-F-1798W-013. Base: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Indian security guard, portrait, at the tomb of Akbar the Great, Sikandra, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, North India, India, Asia

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