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Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan

Images capturing military personnel conducting operations in urban and rural settings during various missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

060624-M-0914O-034. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: TF 1/6

030407-M-0175R-074. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

970414-F-7666R-176. Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH Base: Doha Country: Qatar (QAT)

Soldiers wave flags in a parade celebrating the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Kuwait City Country: Kuwait(KWT)

In the mountains east of the Jordan River, a patrol from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine punctuates a battle hymn by discharging Soviet, Chechoslovanian (VZ58), and (top left) Egyptian weapons. Early 1969. Thomas R Koeniges.

040621-M-9382M-036. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Nagolan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

ZARQA, Jordan - Iraqi Security Forces service members pose for a group photo with a U.S. Special Forces service member following an assault operation scenario during exercise Eager Lion, September 8, 2022. Exercise Eager Lion is considered the capstone event of the broader U.S. military relationship with the Jordanian Armed Forces, one of U.S. Central Commands strongest and most reliable partners in the region, leading the way for security and stability using conventional and nonconventional scenarios to activate a combined joint task force. The exercise underscores the United States commitment to partners in the Middle East and joint defense against hybrid threats by state and non-state actors.

041124-M-2583M-064. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030322-M-6270B-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Protests in Cairo

A U.S. Army Soldier, right, gives a small Afghan boy chewing gum outside the new Daman District Center in Daman district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, July 3, 2011. Daman District Center is the location where the district governor and local Mullahs hold their shuras.

A U.S. Army Soldier from Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, and a U.S. Army Interpreter, question an Iraqi Civilian at her home during a Cordon and Search in the town of Al Intisar, Mosul, Iraq, on May 1, 2008. A Cordon and Search is conducted to find explosive paraphernalia and weapons. Local residents are questioned for information regarding Improvised Explosive Device placement in their town.

050729-A-9889G-054. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Danger, Tikrit State: Salah Al Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Members of the 552nd Air Control Wing and Air Combat Command Inspector General offices proceed to the Deployment Processing Terminal at the 72nd Logistics Readiness Squadron as a part of deployment preparation in the Agile Thunder 22-02 exercise at Tinker AFB on Aug. 10, 2022. The exercise was observed and evaluated by the IG offices.

National Security Guard NSG commandos with gun after terrorist attack by deccan mujahedeen Bombay Copyright: xHemangixNakwe/DinodiaxPhotox

050630-A-9930K-083. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF-76

Afghan shop owners make a fire ring in Now Zad, Afghanistan, Dec. 17, 2009. U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment are meeting with Afghan elders in the town to discuss the reconstruction process. Marines employ local Afghans to repair the city and help with the restoration of shops and businesses.

040605-M-4419R-041. Base: India Base (NASIR WAAL SALAAM) State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060301-A-7969G-020. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Summerall State: Salah Ah Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: C1-187

070101-F-1936B-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Maghdad State: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040606-M-5555L-093. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Hurricane Point State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040801-M-0367H-001. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040508-M-8683D-003. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Air Base State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 6th Mar Reg

030612-A-1200M-013. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030419-M-5607A-036. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Nu'Maniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040507-F-4539R-001. Base: Tallil Air Base State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM

U.S. Military members from Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul talk with villagers during a visit to Mogul Zai, Zabul Province, Afghanistan, Oct. 29. Afghan National Police officers distributed humanitarian aid to the village which consisted of well material and winter supplies.

U.S. Army Cpt. Vincent Cesaro, a native of Chicago, Ill., befriends an Iraqi boy during a visit to the Iraqi family village in Baghdad, Iraq on Sep. 1, 2008. The U.S. Soldiers are part of Headquarters Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.

040606-M-5555L-035. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Hurricane Point State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050511-M-8172E-003. Base: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3/25 LIMA CO

During a Humanitarian Civilian Assistance Team Village visit, Captain (CPT) Kevin Parker with the 450th Civil Affairs Battalion (CAB), puts candy into the pocket of a young Afghan boy from the village of Haji Lalay Kalacha, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Haji Lalay Kalacha Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Border security force soldier guarding near muster field Sopore in Kashmir valley Jammu and Kashmir India 8-April-2008 Copyright: xHemangixNakwe/DinodiaxPhotox

Spc. Chase Couturiax, a tactical explosives detection dog handler with Troop C, 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, rests with his dog, Sgt. Nina, during a foot patrol to counteract indirect fire near Combat Outpost Baraki Barak, May 21, 2013. TEDD teams help detect hidden explosives during joint U.S. and Afghan dismounted patrols, helping to keep U.S. and Afghan soldiers and local civilians safe.

Afghan boys shake U.S. Army soldiers hand after a ribbon ceremony and graduation at the Weesh Boys High school in Spin Boldak District, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, June 12. Combined Task Force Lightning officially transferred over the new Weesh Boys High school to governement of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan authorities of Spin Boldak district. The old high school is being torn down to expand the Weesh customs facility.

060117-A-5745M-102. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

020524-F-2902B-007. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Air Base State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

050712-A-1238J-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Victory, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070318-M-2819S-011. Complete Scene Caption: Soldiers with the Iraqi Army and Fallujah Iraqi Police unload 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

Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division hold the gate for an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) as it departs a secure area during Operation Desert Shield. The soldier at right is manning an M-249 squad automatic weapon (SAW). Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

040126-F-5435-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030417-M-5654R-001. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tikrit State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MWSS-373

Marines on the ground try to maintain order as meals, ready to eat (MREs) are passed out to a crowd of waiting Kurds during Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ)

030404-M-6538A-012. Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

051215-A-4182R-012. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 155 BCT

040720-A-1067B-003. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MNC-I

051011-A-8255A-011. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DF-ST-84-01727. Subject Operation/Series: CENTO Base: Shiraz Air Base Country: Iran (IRN)

050821-A-6108G-135. Base: Erbil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041009-A-0363C-012. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Gayan District Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

U.S. Army Sgt. Franklin Bangura waves at Iraqi children during the opening of their new school in Lutafiyah, Iraq, Oct. 1, 2007. Bangura is assigned to Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry).

051117-A-9297R-034. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76

030502-F-7924J-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040411-M-5440-026. Base: Al Mahmudiyah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

LAO - VIENTIANE LA COMPROMISEMême si elle se rapproche du million dhabitants, Vientiane a encore les allures dune bourgade à côte des mégapoles des pays voisins telles que Bangkok ou Ho-Chi-Minh Ville. Cela nempêche pas la capitale laotienne de rêver du même destin. La culture ancestrale du Laos, étroitement liée au culte bouddhique, se veut sans vains désirs ni ambitions démesurées. Aujourdhui, la rupture est totale et Vientiane en est lillustration. La croissance exponentielle du pays est principalement due aux investissements étrangers, avec en première ligne la Chine, qui viennent puiser dans les nombreuses ressources naturelles du pays, notamment dans les secteurs miniers, forestiers et hydroélectriques.Ainsi, avec la mondialisation qui entraine luniformisation des modes de vie et ces nouvelles richesses qui sont créées, les habitants de la capitale aspirent à un nouveau destin. Tours de verre, centre commerciaux, parcs dattraction, restaurants et cafés branchés commenc

040604-M-0706S-008. Base: Al Shahabi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1/5, B Co.

050829-A-0575B-054. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Nijrab Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast

041028-F-8946M-010. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060308-A-5745M-061. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

030408-F-8362B-050. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: Free Iraqi Forces

DF-ST-89-00760. Subject Operation/Series: SHADOW HAWK Base: Azarq Air Base Country: Jordan (JOR)

Ein Soldat steht vor einer an die Wand gemalten Blume im zerstoerten Stadtzentrum von Sinjar, 09.03.2023

050414-A-8024C-007. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060102-A-5886H-105. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baqubah State: Diyaka Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CENTRAL COMMAND

060427-A-6365W-062. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Remagen State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

051215-A-2777C-044. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030407-M-0175R-076. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050712-A-1238J-014. Subject Operation/Series: KARKAR Base: Rashad State: Salah Al Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 4TH IRAQI DIVISION

031030-F-0981H-144. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

041211-M-2583M-074. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030404-M-6538A-009. Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

REGRESO A RAQQA (2022), directed by ALBERT SOLE and RAUL CUEVAS.

040903-M-2306K-041. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Duke, Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050712-A-1238J-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Victory, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030818-M-7837W-012. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Commando Country: Kuwait (KWT)

Civilians and coalition military forces wave Kuwaiti, Saudi Arabian and other flags as they celebrate the retreat of Iraqi forces from Kuwait as a result of Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Kuwait City Country: Kuwait (KWT)

U.S. Army soldiers from the 450th Civil Affairs Battalion walk with Afghan children through the village of HeydarKheyl, Sayed-Abad District, Wardak Province, Afghanistan, March 25, 2010. The soldiers are here to check on and help improve humanitarian conditions in the village.

030410-M-9792P-031. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

Rear view of soldiers praying at Wailing Wall; Jerusalem, Israel

U.S. Army Cpl. Brian Lewis, a native of Duluth, Minn., and team leader assigned to 1st Platoon, Blackfoot Company greats an Afghan boy while conducting a security patrol in Shaway Valley, June 2. Blackfoot Company, stationed at Combat Outpost Chergataw, routinely patrols the valley in efforts to bring stability to the region.

Members of a Botswani task force patrol through a village in a V-150 Commando armored personnel carrier as they search for weapons during the multinational relief effort Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

December 20, 1992. Mogadishu, Somalia. US Marines delivering food aid to the famine stricken country of Somalia patrol a section of the capital Mogadishu. Late in 1992, troops from the United States and other nations attempted to restore political stability and establish free and open food-aid routes by protecting ports, airports, and roads. However, there was widespread looting of food-distribution sites and hostility toward the relief effort by heavily armed militant factions.

060410-A-5043I-017. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MOUNTAIN INFANTRY DIVISION

Medical personnel, some wearing nuclear-biological-chemical warfare gear, transport a patient on a litter while taking part in a mass casualty exercise during Operation Desert Shield.

040415-F-2902B-003. Base: Sadr City State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040410-A-0259W-041. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

A Marjah farmer pulls a bag of fertilizer 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.

DN-ST-91-10927. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Kuwait (KWT)

030326-M-2081S-011. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Iraqi National Police and U.S. Army Soldiers from 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division discover a weapons cache near a checkpoint outside Abu Thayla, Iraq, April 13, 2008. Soldiers seized the cache, which consisted of 29 120-mm mortar rounds, 466 2.2 mines, 75 2.4 mines, seven Chinese 107-mm rockets and five rocket-propelled grenades, and detained three suspects.

070103-M-4937G-054. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Ramadi Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030823-M-7837W-040. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041006-F-3924S-001. Subject Operation/Series: OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

1st Lt. Donald Vance, a native of Lehigh Acres, Fla., looks up at an Iraqi child during a combined dismounted patrol Jan. 17 in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad. Paratroopers assigned to Company D, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, partnered with the 1st Battalion, 8th Brigade, 2nd National P Division during the dismounted patrol in order to assess the neighborhoods security and gain intelligence.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Tony Hamiltion, acting platoon sergeant for 1st Platoon Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, helps a little boy carry a bag flour to a waiting cart during a humanitarian aide mission in Baloor, Iraq, Feb. 4, 2008.

Local Iraqi civilians gather and watch as a US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine assigned to the 24th Service Support Group (SSG), 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC) uses a Tractor Rubber-tired Articulated Steering Multi-purpose (TRAM) to cover and remove abandoned Iraqi fighting positions dug in between two building in Al Rifa, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Rifa Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030322-M-9124R-009. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Local Afghan village elders sit in on a scheduled council meeting with U.S. Marine Capt. Kenneth J. Del Mazo, Commanding Officer Battery I, 3rd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment (3/10), 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.

040903-M-2306K-047. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Duke, Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

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