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Military Operations in Conflict Zones

Images capturing military personnel interacting with local populations and conducting security operations in conflict areas.

040531-M-0706S-011. Base: Al Shahabi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1/5, B Co.

030621-M-2081S-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Hillah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1 Bn, 4th Marines

030330-M-2176J-145. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041211-M-0036Y-025. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Benghazi: Public funeral for people who have died in combat in the East.

050628-A-1566H-033. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM State: Babil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050823-A-3240S-020. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Hillah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Pashtun People In A Village In The Khyber Pass, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan

040614-M-5555L-047. Base: Camp Ali State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050902-A-0527A-026. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Zakeresharif Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

041121-M-2583M-009. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040606-M-5555L-055. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Hurricane Point State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030328-M-477G-024. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Female armed soldiers parade in camouflage uniform in Abu Dhabi for celebration of 20th Anniversary of United Arab Emirates

020521-F-9085B-014. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kabul Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Armed with 5.56mm M4 Carbine rifles, soldiers with "C" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), Fort Bragg, North Carolina, inspect civilian belongings while on a weapons search in the village during an assault Operation Viper in Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

050929-A-2098S-047. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Marez State: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 172ND SBCT

030403-M-9792P-023. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

040411-M-5440-021. Base: Al Mahmudiyah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040422-M-8096M-029. Base: Najoy State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Soviet paratroopers in Afghanistan during the Soviet Afghan War.

RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (2007), directed by RUSSELL MULCAHY. Copyright: Editorial use only. No merchandising or book covers. This is a publicly distributed handout. Access rights only, no license of copyright provided. Only to be reproduced in conjunction with promotion of this film.

040331-M-5753Q-025. Base: Barwana State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Kurdish refugees watch a delivery of food supplies by Allied forces during Operation Provide Comfort, an effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040903-M-2306K-100. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Duke, Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050226-F-8584G-024. Base: Al Iskandariyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051129-A-2718K-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060101-A-5745M-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MNT 2ND BDE

030413-M-4066S-010. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sikar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 24TH MQRINE EXPEDITIONARY UNIT

050630-A-9930K-072. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Abu Ghiraib Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050829-A-0575B-053. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76

041002-F-0524H-002. Base: Samarra State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041118-F-0524H-036. Base: Penjwen Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050718-A-9039F-043. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF-76

060412-A-5745M-024. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN

040605-M-4419R-012. Base: India Base (NASIR WAAL SALAAM) State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Iraqi police officers practice basic police skills as part of the Iraqi Police Prep Course on Taji, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2007. The course is being taught by U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division.

031105-F-1798W-003. Base: Al Hawijah State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050718-A-9039F-053. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF-76

030121-F-7203T-013. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Air Base State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

National Security Guard NSG commando talking killing Deccan Mujahedeen terrorist Taj Mahal hotel on 26 November 2008 in Bombay Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

030326-M-2081S-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030517-M-5972A-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Samwah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

020512-F-2902B-010. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Jabel Saraj Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

040408-M-8096M-003. Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

060302-A-3749Z-034. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Bamyan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF 76

A Kurdish boy smiles as he carries the bread and field rations that were given to him by British soldiers on the outskirts of the city. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Zakhu Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Military training at a secondary school in Tripoli, Libya, North Africa, Africa

041209-M-6795S-010. Base: Sperah State: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

060325-A-7969G-019. Base: Forward Operating Base Summerall State: Salah Ah Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AB DIVISION

040530-M-5505M-026. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030331-M-5455N-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

US Navy (USN) Rear Admiral (RADM) Charles Kubik, Commander, First Naval Construction Division, Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia (VA), and Commander, First Marine Expeditionary Force Engineer Group (I MEG), speaks with citizens of Umm Qasr about the newly renovated Umm Qasr High School. A Seabee unit deployed here for support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM rebuilt the high school. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DA-SC-87-07946. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '86 Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

040812-M-4358R-052. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM II Base: An Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041122-M-2583M-004. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051215-A-7969G-040. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Rashadiya Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: IA

060321-A-9157N-045. Subject Operation/Series: NEW HORIZON Base: Santa Clara State: Barahona Country: Dominican Republic (DOM)

060116-A-6365W-020. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Loyalty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

051208-A-0673W-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Victory, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION

041216-M-1188A-008. Base: General Nakar State: Quezon Country: Philippines (PHL)

050628-A-1566H-047. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Speicher State: Tikrit Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD C, 2BN,1 BDE, 4 DIV

040601-M-8530M-084. Base: Camp Dayton State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MP/03/7

A U.S. Army Soldier with 4th Platoon, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division out of Fort Carson, Colo., talks with local residents about whose house was struck by small arms fire by insurgent forces in the area of Dora in southern Baghdad, Iraq, July 23, 2007.

030411-F-8362B-013. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050920-A-8255A-086. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Madain State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040813-M-0706S-026. Base: Nassir Wa Al Salam State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030413-M-0175R-093. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

JONAH LOTAN in GENERATION KILL-TV (2008), directed by SIMON CELLAN JONES.

051204-A-7969G-042. Base: Thyad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Benghazi: Public outcry during a funeral for victims who have died in combat in the East.

051215-A-7969G-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Hesseinia Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: IA

Members of the Iraqi Police Force from the city of Dibbis, Iraq, disassemble an Iraqi Tabuk 7.62MM assault rifle found during a search in the village of Qarah Tappah, Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The search was conducted to locate and confiscate any illegal contraband that could be used against coalition forces. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qarah Tappah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

(Kapisa Province, Afghanistan) U.S. Army Spc. Joshua McDaniel with Provincial Reconstruction Team Kapisa passes out flyers written in Dari wishing the people of Kapisa a Happy Ramadan. A crowd from nearby villages gathered to watch a shura (meeting) between village elders and PRT to discuss concerns about road construction near their farmland.

051215-A-5560L-013. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050704-A-9039F-040. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF-76

US Marine Corps (USMC) elements of the 1ST Marine Division, secure buildings in the town of Al Aziziyah, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030604-M-5882G-022. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Hillah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

011010-F-0193C-004. Complete Scene Caption: During a BRIGHT STAR mass-casualties exercise, an Egyptian medical technician and Army Fire Fighter Sergeant James Ussery, USA, check the injuries of a simulated casualty. The simulation was a five-ton truck flipping while carrying 12 passengers and having both Egyptian and American armed forces respond for emergency attention. BRIGHT STAR is a multinational exercise involving more than 74,000 troops from 44 countries that is designed to enhance regional stability and military-to-military cooperation among the US, our key allies, and our regional partners. It prepares US Central Command to rapidly deploy and employ the armed forces to deter aggressors and, if necessary, fight and win side-by-side with our allies and regional partners. Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR 01-02 Base: Mubarak Military City Country: Egypt (EGY)

060225-A-7969G-027. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Summerall State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: C1-187

030419-M-5607A-041. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Nu'Maniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050628-A-1566H-011. Base: Camp Speicher State: Tikrit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Iraqi police and U.S. Army work together in Iraqi village

US Army (USA) Sergeant (SGT) Carlos Gonzales, 13th Corps Support Command (COSCOM), Fort Hood, Texas (TX), Logistics Support Area (LAS) Anaconda, Iraq, shows the proper wear of a Kevlar helmet to a youngster during a visit to a school in the town of Al Rafae during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. SGT Gonzales and fellow Soldiers delivered school supplies donated by Pepperdine University in California students. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Rafae Country: Iraq (IRQ)

in danakil ethiopia africa the rifle and the back of the guard concept of safety and protection

U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Benjamin DeCosta, left, and Sgt. Anthony Negrete, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, set up explosives during ordnance training in preparation for Friendship Day 2023, at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, March 26, 2023. The MCAS Iwakuni EOD team has been conducting various controlled explosions since December 2022 in preparation for Friendship Day 2023.

030401-M-477G-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050124-F-8584G-063. Base: Unknown Country: Iraq (IRQ)

UR, Adhamiyah - Great Falls, Va., native 2nd Lt. Andrew Walko, the 1st Platoon leader of Company C, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, watches a resident of Ur, a neighborhood in Baghdads Adhamiyah district, July 21. The paratroopers went door to door to gather information from residents who are being terrorized criminal militia.

Adjabiya Libya Local people prepare weapons to fight Gaddafi troops.

Asia, Yemen, Ma'rib. Woman with AK47 and ammunition.

U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), train members of the Armed Forces of Djibouti (FAD), Bataillon dintervention rapide (BIR), on Glock 19 handling procedures, Djibouti, April 7, 2022. The SFAB trains and advises foreign security forces to improve partner capabilities and facilitate achievement of U.S. strategic objectives.

050406-A-4962B-033. Base: Shakarta Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041121-M-2583M-006. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070317-M-2819S-017. Complete Scene Caption: An Iraqi man speaks with a Soldier with the Iraqi Army about the activities of the city. Soldiers of the Iraqi Army and Marines with the Military Transition Team attached to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, and 1ST Division of the Iraqi Army conduct mounted security patrols as a combined forces exercise on March 7, 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

041118-F-0524H-029. Base: Penjwen Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army Capt. Tadia, of 5th Battalion, 25th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, searches a restaurant during a search mission with Iraqi National Police from 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Division and Iraqi army soldiers for illegal firearms and improvised explosive device caches in Baghdad, Iraq, March 15, 2008.

031112-F-5114B-104. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

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