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Military Engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan

Images showing interactions between military personnel and local civilians during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, highlighting humanitarian efforts and community engagement.

040324-M-5753Q-012. Base: Rawah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Israeli soldiers in the Old City, Jerusalem, Israel, Middle East

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.

Bin Jawad: heavy artillery shelling and machine gun shooting in Bin Jawad. 28 wounded and an unknown number of deaths.

Asia, Yemen, Ma'rib. Arch site's guard and son of local sheik.

050821-A-6108G-201. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A 60 Minutes film crew gets footage at the Ahmed Shah Massoud memorial in the Panjshir Province, Afghanistan, Sept. 8, 2009. Massoud is the late resistance leader known for his role in the defense of Afghanistan against the Russian invasions and for his assassination by Al Qaeda on Sept. 9, 2001.

051215-A-5745M-112. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD ID

030330-M-2176J-128. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030330-M-2176J-126. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040706-F-1351B-008. Base: Zarkha Country: Jordan (JOR) Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM

041209-M-6795S-001. Base: Sperah State: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

020416-F-1644L-019. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Air Base Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

060406-A-3749Z-113. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

020505-F-1644L-006. Base: Markhanai Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Israeli soldiers on Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem, Israel, Middle East

030324-M-4779G-011. Base: Al Shur Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1 RCT

040803-F-1351B-032. Base: Taji Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM

040606-M-0049F-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Army desert training at Fort Irwin

Iraq, Al Muthanna, 3 May 2004. © Cavd / Royal Navy. Together with the Iraqi Border Police, the Dutch SSR team (Sector Security Reform) visits the newly under construction border posts on the border with Saudi Arabia.

040804-A-7629B-021. State: Parwan Province Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

070317-M-0994O-040. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: RCT-2

040106-F-1798W-006. Base: Kirkuk Air Base Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051215-A-7359K-094. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Warrior State: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

040116-F-7234P-011. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 186 Military Police Company

031112-F-1798W-003. Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Girls Playing On An Abandoned Soviet Tank In The Siagerd Valley, Parwan Province, Afghanistan

040123-A-6414T-007. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kabul Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

050918-A-5679R-021. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Zhari State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

DF-ST-88-02968. Base: San Bernardino State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

040614-F-5789F-002. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051208-A-0673W-019. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Victory, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION

040111-F-7234P-010. Base: Baghdad International Airport Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 186 Military Police Company, 744

041124-M-2583M-093. Complete Scene Caption: Two representatives of the Iraqi Ministry of Health (front left and front right), a U.S. Army Soldier (second from left), and two Iraqi Army Soldiers wait outside of the Jolan Medical Clinic, in the city of Fallujah, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, for U.S. Marine Corps 4th Civil Affairs Group Marines to clear the building on Nov. 24, 2004. The U.S. Marine Corps 4th Civil Affairs Group Marines and Iraqi Ministry of Health representatives are inspecting various medical facilities to estimate what repairs are necessary to get them back to full functionality. This assessment is being done at the conclusion of the week-long battle by Multinational Forces against insurgents in the city of Fallujah, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by CPL. Theresa M. Medina) (Released) Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Muslim rebel with rifle.

051215-A-5745M-054. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD ID

060117-A-5745M-074. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

050419-A-9889G-020. Base: Tikrit State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

011217-F-3961R-021. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM 2001 Base: Mazar-E Sharif State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030415-M-8539K-060. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Mar Div DM

Senior Airman Jose Cornejo, a loadmaster assigned to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, hands boxes of Halal meals to Pakistanis after arriving at Peshawar, Pakistan, Aug. 1, 2010. The U.S. Air Force flew thousands of meals to Pakistan as part of a humanitarian relief mission to help flood victims. Airman Cornejo is a native of Chicago, Ill.

030325-A-6418B-011. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030823-M-7837W-029. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040607-M-0631S-004. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1-BCT

Children give victory sign inspiration Force One commandos conducting search combing operation slum Uran 47 km East of Mumbai India Copyright: xSolaris/DinodiaxPhotox

030326-M-4779G-010. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Young people celebrate Gaddafi's exit of Benghazi.

051014-N-8796S-175. Base: Muzaffarabad Country: Pakistan (PAK)

A U.S. Soldier assigned to the 140th Chemical Company, California National Guard, conducts mass casualty decontamination operations at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa., July 27, 2022. Task Force 46 and over 600 personnel from its federal, state, local, private and academic partners collaborated to successfully complete the most recent Dense Urban Terrain (DUT) exercise. The DUT series of exercises began in 2018 and has become one of the Nations premier all-hazard and homeland defense exercises designed to enhance interagency interoperability in the event of “Americas worst day.”

030108-A-8024C-002. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM 2003 Base: Kandahar Air Base Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030614-M-0367H-003. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd BN 7th MAR

Restrictions were tightened in and around Srinagar city on Friday. Security forces are deployed as the authorities looked to prevent any congregation of separatist groups to mark the death anniversaries of Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq (Chairman of the All Jammu and Kashmir Awami Action Committee) and Abdul Gani Lone (Kashmiri lawyer, politician and separatist leader). Srinagar, India.

041014-F-8946M-003. Base: Camp Caldwell State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

071008-A-4619A-158 - Army Spc. Amy Long, 173rd Airborne Combat Team, Charlie Company, Brigade Support Battalion, X-ray technician, prepares to screen an Afghan man Oct. 8, at a forward operating base near the northeastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. At right, sits another local man on a litter waiting for an assessment at the 555th Forward Surgical Team clinic.

060403-A-5745M-017. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

041008-F-0524H-033. Subject Operation/Series: OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Samarra Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050706-A-1566H-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM State: Babil Province Country: Iraq (IRQ)

The Honorable Walter B. Slocombe (gray shirt), Under Secretary of Defense (Policy), talks with a Royal Army (British) soldier, C Co., 1ST United Kingdom Mechanized Brigade, in Cukuvi, Bosnia-Herzegovina, while one of the Secretary's bodyguard and another Royal Army (British) soldier observe. The Secretary's bodyguard is armed with an Armalite AR-15 and the British soldier the Secretary is speaking to carries a 5.56mm L85A1 (SA-80) Individual Weapon. Mr. Slocombe is on a two-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina to meet with IFOR personnel and various Bosnian civic leaders. Base: Cukuvi Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

030406-M-6270B-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040819-M-8683D-001. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

070217-A-5144A-164. Base: Forward Operating Base Falcon State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040917-F-5388P-203. Base: Kunsan Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

050918-A-6186K-011. Base: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Europe

050821-A-6108G-202. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Officer of the Royal Bedouin Police in traditional uniform with frock coat, dagger and cartridge belt, Petra, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kingdom of Jordan

060319-A-7969G-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Summerall State: Salah Ah Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AB DIVISION

051215-A-7359K-093. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Warrior State: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

031203-F-7234P-006. Base: Baghdad International Airport Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1 Armored Division

020909-F-0365G-001. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

CPT Wayne Miller, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter pilot with Marine Utility/Attack Helicopter Squadron 169 (HML/A-169), speaks with local residents upon his arrival during Operation Sea Angel, a U.S. military effort to provide disaster relief to victims of a cyclone which devastated Bangladesh on April 30th.. Subject Operation/Series: SEA ANGEL Base: Haida Island Country: Bangladesh(BGD)

030117-F-7203T-005. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Air Base State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

051221-F-2729L-004. Base: Muzaffarabad State: Azad Kashmir Country: Pakistan (PAK)

050918-A-6186K-031. Base: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Europe

040718-F-0193C-017. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060413-A-7969G-012. Base: Bayji State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AB DIVISION

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

CAIRO, August 9, 2013. Pro-Mursi demonstration in front of the Army deployed in Rabaa Adawiya Square in Nassar City, in the city of Cairo. Image Oscar del Pozo (ARCHDC) Oscar del Pozo.

041110-M-3658J-004. Base: Camp Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Yasser Arafat posters in Shatila refugee camp, Beirut, Lebanon.

060129-A-6311S-116. Subject Operation/Series: TAJI SHORE Base: Taji Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051010-A-8255A-040. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040607-M-0706S-051. Base: Al Shahabi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1/5, B Co.

030412-F-5918G-010. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041220-F-5276B-118. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DN-SC-89-03249. Base: Nouakchott Country: Mauritania (MRT)

A young Afghan boy stops in the middle of the road with his tire as Soldiers assigned to 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Company C., 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, pass bye the boys road in Arghandab District Jan. 31. 2nd Squad, Company C, 1-66, 1BCT, 4th Inf Div. was conducting a foot patrol to search orchards throughout the district and build rapport with the local population.

040823-F-4884R-009. Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070313-M-0948M-051. Base: Camp Blue Diamond State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7TH IRAQI ARMY DIVISION

U.S. Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Kevin Wilson, a civil affairs specialist assigned to 7th Psychological Operations Group, gives a high-five to a young boy during a community outreach performance by the 25th Infantry Division Tropic Lightning Brass Band as part of Super Garuda Shield 2022 on Aug. 6, 2022 at Taman Tani Merdeka Park, Martapura, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Super Garuda Shield 2022, a part of Operation Pathways and a longstanding annual, bilateral military exercise conducted between the U.S. Military and Indonesian National Armed Forces, reinforces U.S. commitments to our allies and regional partners, joint readiness, and the interoperability to fight and win together.

030409-M-3138H-003. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030821-M-7837W-066. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Soldiers from the 404th and 443rd Civil Affairs Battalions (CAB), assigned to the 409th Air Expeditionary Group, meet with villagers and the chief of Attimick, Niger, June 13, 2022. During the visit, they discussed issues regarding the village water supply, and Soldiers with the 404th CAB introduced the new civil affairs team from the 443rd CAB and bid farewell to village leaders and citizens who theyve built relationships with as a part of the enduring relationship between the U.S. and the citizens of Niger.

050918-A-6186K-016. State: Parwan Province Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

060330-A-7969G-011. Base: Siniyah State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AB DIVISION

030930-F-5586B-002. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050821-A-6108G-147. Base: Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Israel, Jerusalem, Mount Zion, Israeli Defense Force soldiers on duty. The area around King David's Tomb has been the site of conflicts between ultra-orthodox Jewish radical activists and Christian pilgrims visiting the site.

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