French & ANA(Afghab National Army) soldiers of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands guard outside the Serena Hotel, after rockets attacks, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 28 October 2009. Two rockets were fired into Kabul, on October 28, one hit the main building for the Serena Hotel, Kabul's only five-star hotel, which is located near the presidential palace, while the other struck a park near the hotel, causing no casualties.
Units of the Lebanese navy and Italian UNIFIL marine during a joint military exercise on board the amphibious Navy Italian ship 'San Marco' at Naqoura Harbour southern Lebanon 26 October 2009. A Joint amphibious exercise conducted by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Navy was witnessed at Naqoura Harbour by UNIFIL Force Commander Major-General Claudio Graziano, LAF Brigadier-General Maroun Khraish.
Cameramen and photographers protect themselves of the shooting during a clash between police officers and drugdealers at the Vila Cruzeiro shanty town in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23 October 2009, in a continuation of violence reigning in the Brazilian city since 17 October, when a police helicopter was shot down by criminals
Japan Coast Guard staff investigate Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer Kurama after a collision with a South Korean container at the Kammon Straits on October 28, 2009 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. Destroyer Kurama was on the way back to Sasebo Port after attending a fleet review.
Members of the 3 RCR Battle Group and members of the Afghan National Army prepare to secure and search a series of compounds, looking for evidence of IED manufacture and insurgent activity.
The 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR) based out of Petawawa, Ontario, is currently deployed as the Canadian Forces Battle Group.
A group of Canadian and Afghan soldiers await the signal to advance toward a compound of interest, looking for weapons and supply caches of the insurgency.
A soldier from the 3 RCR Battle group collects munitions and explosives components which will be brought to a central point, then documented and destroyed.
Soldiers from the 3 RCR Battle group collect munitions and explosives components which will be brought to a central point, then documented and destroyed.
A Canadian Forces soldier exits a compound during a foot patrol in Southern Afghanistan after completing a search of a bunker previously used to make Improvised Explosive Devices (IED’s).
Soldiers from the Canadian Forces Battle Group relax outside their LAV III as they prepare to depart a forward observation base in Southern Afghanistan.
The POMLT (Police Operational Mentoring Liaison Team) operating in the northern end of Pashmul helps train the Afghan Uniformed Police in community policing and security, helping to stabilize local areas allowing reconstruction to continue.
Police Operational Mentoring Liaison Teams provide training, mentoring services and expert advice to the Afghan Uniformed Police and are made up of soldiers from combat arms units and military police.
The POMLT (Police Operational Mentoring Liaison Team) operating in the northern end of Pashmul helps train the Afghan Uniformed Police in community policing and security, helping to stabilize local areas allowing reconstruction to continue.
Sergeant Dave Gratto carefully searches a culvert on the road looking for IEDs. Culverts and other road fixtures are a favorite spot for insurgents to hide explosives.
Maple Guardian 0802 was an exercise taking place from September to November of 2008 in order to train elements from Joint Task Force Afghanistan (Task Force 1-09 and 5-09) for their deployment to Afghanistan in the spring of 2009. Maple Guardian took place at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, and brought together the Roto 7 Battle Group drawn principally from Land Force Quebec Area (LFQA) and a Headquarters Group from Land Force Western Area (LFWA)
The Task Force made up of Francophone soldiers from Valcartier is training with a Headquarters group from Edmonton. EX MAPLE GUARDIAN is an opportunity for these two different cultures to train together before departing for Roto 7. Training in Wainwright is a crucial step for the soldiers who will be deployed to Afghanistan.
PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 28, 2009) A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) is launched from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Myoko (DDG 175) in a joint missile defense intercept test with the Missile Defense Agency in the Pacific Ocean. The SM-3 successfully intercepted a medium-range target that had been launched minutes earlier from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. Myoko's crew detected and tracked the target, developed a fire control solution, then launched the SM-3. (U.S. Navy photos Courtesy of the Missile Defense Agency/Released)
Georgian servicemen take part in a joint US-Georgian military exercise “Immediate Response 2010“ at Vaziani military base outside Tiblisi, Georgia 30 October 2009. The training will run through 08 November 2009
A South Korean soldier holds his machine gun during an annual military exercise in Yeoju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. South Korea announced plans Friday to send troops to Afghanistan to protect its civilian aid workers, two years after withdrawing its forces following a fatal hostage crisis
Two unidentified members of the US military, left, leave Colombia's Ministry of Affairs headquarters in Bogota, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. In a private, low-key ceremony, the US ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield and three Colombian ministers signed a pact Friday to expand Washington's military's presence, a deal that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has called a threat to the region's security.
Participating in the board-and-search operations during Exercise Deep Sabre II, the ASSeT (Accompanying Sea Security Team) is formed by members from the Republic of Singapore Navy (left) and Police Coast Guard (PCG).
An Indian army soldier secures the area near to the site of a gun battle between Indian Army and rebel forces in Sopore, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) northwest of Srinagar, India, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009. Indian Army and paramilitary soldiers killed one suspected rebel and blew up two houses during the gun battle that began Saturday morning in Sopore town. The search operation is ongoing, an army spokesman said.
Indian soldiers take cover as a residential house is blown up by an improvised explosive device during a gun battle between Indian soldiers and suspected militants in Sopore, 48km (30 miles) north of Srinagar, October 31, 2009. A militant of Pakistan-based
(LeT) militant group was killed on Saturday and a residential house damaged in a gun battle with Indian soldiers in Kashmir that is still ongoing, a spokesman for the Indian army in Srinagar said.
A Pakistani paramilitary soldier stands guard on the arrival of Indian Sikh pilgrims at the Wagah Railway Station on October 31, 2009 to take part in 9-day long 541st birth anniversary celebrations of their spiritual leader Baba Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion. The first special train carrying 2000 Sikh pilgrims arrived at the Pakistan-India border town of Wagah to celebrations of Baba Guru Nanak to be held at Nankana Sahib some 85 kilometers from Lahore.
A former child soldier of the Tamil Tiger rebels prepares to leave a rehabilitation center to enroll in a school, in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009. A group of 67 former child soldiers left a rehabilitation center in order to follow mainstream education in government run schools in Colombo, according to Lt. Col. Manjula Gunasinghe in charge of the camp.
Division and the 704th Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team's partnership mission at Besmiyah Range Complex, just outside of Baghdad October 24, 2009. The 704th EODT helped their Iraqi counterparts destroy nearly 3,000 pounds of explosives collected over the past few months. Picture taken October 24, 2009.
's supporters gather outside congress in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. Deposed President Manuel Zelaya told The Associated Press on Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact will restore him to power in about a week.
An instructor supervises the military training of a cadet of a Cossack school in Krasnogvardeyskoye village, 120 km (75 miles) north of the southern Russia's city of Stavropol, October 31, 2009.
Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad stand guard during rally in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. Tens of thousands of Islamic Jihad loyalists gathered in Gaza in a memorial to the militant group's founder. Holding plastic models of rockets and wearing masks and mock suicide bomber's vests, the members chanted "death to Israel", "Mohammed's army will be back to wipe off the Hebrew state."
's welcome ceremony at the Nepalese President's Office in Kathmandu on October 30, 2009. President Mahinda Rajapakse has arrived in Nepal for a three-day official visit.
South Korean army tanks and armored vehicles participate in a river crossing operation, part of an annual military exercise against a possible attack from North Korea in Wonju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. The defense exercise started Thursday, Oct. 29, at several locations throughout the nation until Nov. 6.
South Korean army's CH-47 helicopters carry equipment for a river-crossing operation during an annual military exercise against a possible attack from North Korea in Wonju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. The defense exercise started Thursday, Oct. 29, at several locations throughout the nation until Nov. 6.
SOUTH CHINA SEA (Oct. 29, 2009) Members of an Australian boarding team disembark a rigid-hull inflatable boat and climb aboard the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Walter S. Diehl (T-AO 193) during a Deep Sabre II training exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Seth Clarke/Released)
South Korean Army soldiers take part in an anti-terrorism drill against possible attacks from North Korea in Seoul, November 3, 2009. North Korea said on Tuesday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant and turned it into arms-grade plutonium, giving the mercurial state more material to produce atomic arms. (Reuters)
NATO soldiers of Operational Reserve Force (ORF) conduct exercise 'Balkan Hawk III' in town of Gnjilane, Kosovo, on 03 November 2009. The ORF Battalion consists of German troops from the Infantry Battalion 292 and is reinforced by an Austrian Company from the 13th Mechanized Infantry Battalion. It has over 600 soldiers. This rehearsal will enable NATO forces to maintain a high state of readiness and be able to deploy quickly in response to any scenario
Soldiers from the Special Operations Task Group move through the capital of Oruzgan Province after a counter insurgency operation in southern Afghanistan.
Soldiers from the Special Operations Task Group prepare to move in and clear a valley of Taliban extremists during a counter insurgency operation in Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan.
Cadets parade during a military ceremony in which the new chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Force were inaugurated in Asuncion on November 5, 2009. On Wednesday Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo removed the former military chiefs without further explanations, though earlier in the week he had said that there was no threat of a coup when he referring to meetings that certain sectors or small groups of the military forces had been having with his opponents.
GULF OF OMAN (Nov. 4, 2009) The Australian navy frigate HMAS Toowoomba (FFH-156) is underway near the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) during coalition maritime operations. The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is on a routine deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photos by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class John Phillip Wagner Jr./Released)
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Nov. 5, 2009) The German navy frigate Hessen (F221) pulls alongside the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) for a refueling at sea. This is the first time Dwight D. Eisenhower has provided fuel for a German ship. Dwight D. Eisenhower is conducting a three-week Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) in preparation for its upcoming 2010 deployment. COMPTUEX is a training exercise along the East Coast from Virginia to Florida. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Gina K. Wollman/Released)
Afghan National policemen look on as U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division teach a police training course at an outpost in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Salinas was preparing to demonstrate how to disarm an aggressor from a position of weakness.
Police officers investigate the aftermath of shooting at the crime scene in Yokohama, Japan, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. A gunman wounded three men near Tokyo on Friday before hiding in a building and apparently killing himself - a rare shooting spree that police said was gang-related.
Members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Special Action Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) hold guns in preparation to assault a target during anti-terrorism drills in Manila November 6, 2009. Hundreds of police were sent to southern Philippines to help free kidnapped Irish priest, Michael Sinnott, 78, held by gunmen with links to the country's largest Muslim group Moro Islamic Liberation Front .
Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) with soldier of the Norwegian Telemark Battalion during the 'Army Summit 09' at the Askershus Fortress in Oslo, Norway on 06 November 2009
