World Armed Forces Pictures & Videos

German Bundeswehr army gunner of the ISAF Quick Reaction Force (QRF) holds his weapon from atop a Fuchs APC on his way to a night drill in the Marmal mountains near Masar-i-Sharif, north of Kabul, September 16, 2008.

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Indian soldiers take part in a joint training exercise with the British Army at Copehill Down military training village on Salisbury Plain on September 16, 2008. For the first time in 60 years soldiers from the Indian Army are training with British troops in a major military exercise. Nearly 140 men from the Punjab-based Mechanised Infantry Battalion trained alongside 3rd Battalion, (Staffords) The Mercian Regiment. The Indian soldiers arrived at the end of August from their base in Batiala, Punjab, and will remain in the Uk for a month. While in England they have been taking part in two exercises, "Lions Strike" - the culmination of the Combined Arms Tactics Course and "Wessex Warrior" - which consists of a scenario with four missions over a five-day period conducted against a motivated opposing force.

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Tamil tiger rebels fight against government soldiers in Akkaraayan village in rebel controlled Vanni, in this September 15, 2008, photo released by the Tamil rebels on September 16, 2008. The United Nations' last team inside Sri Lanka's war zone safely reached army-held territory on Tuesday after the government told aid workers to leave the north in what the president called a temporary safety measure. Picture taken September 15, 2008.

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Palestinian Fatah gunmen take position during clashes in the Ain el-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern port city of Sidon on September 15, 2008. Heavy clashes erupted in the camp today after an Islamist militant was killed, a Palestinian official said. Armed clashes between the Islamist group Jund al-Sham and its rivals in the Fatah faction erupted after the incident, with fighters opening fire with machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The Lebanese army immediately took up position at the camp's entrance, just metres (yards) away from the fighting, as dozens of panicked families fled the camp and traffic was cut off.

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Bolivian soldiers stand guard at a gas station as motorcyclists gather to buy gas at Cobija town September 17, 2008. Bolivian President Evo Morales and governors who led a violent rebellion against his socialist reforms agreed on Tuesday on a road map to end a week-long crisis in the impoverished South American country.

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Army soldiers patrol the street of the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. Brazil's military has been called in to help quell violence and voter intimidation in the city's slums ahead of local elections scheduled for Oct. 3, 2008.

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Israeli snipers wore camouflage during an army exercise at the Shizafon Army Base in southern Israel.
Photo: Tara Todras-Whitehill/Associated Press

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Police stand guard at the Air Force entrance in El Alto, on the outskirts of La Paz, September 16, 2008.

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Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at Palestinian and foreign activists protesting against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village Nilin, near Ramallah on September 17, 2008. Israel's embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert still believes a peace deal with the Palestinians is possible by year's end despite a looming vote to replace him, his spokesman said yesterday.

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Philippines...Photo released by the military September 17, 2008 shows a group of children in dark uniforms carrying firearms. The photographs were recovered together with several weapons and notes on bomb making from the Muslim rebel camp of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Dapiawan village in Datu Saudi Ampatuan town in southern Mindanao island that was overran by government combat troops on September 14, 2008. The Philippines military have accused the MILF of using child soldiers, citing as evidence photographs and videos captured in recent fighting in the south. Last December, a UNICEF-commissioned study confirmed that youths below 18 years of age willingly joined the MILF and served in non-combat roles such as couriers, spies, cooks or to run errands.

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Hungarian riot police stand in line during a demonstration in the centre of Budapest September 17, 2008. Anti-government protesters held a demonstration on the second anniversary of a leaked speech by Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, in which he admitted he lied about the state of the economy in order to win re-election in 2006. That speech triggered a series of riots in Budapest in 2006.

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Police walk past a night bar at Thamel in Kathmandu September 17, 2008. Police have raided scores of discos, nightclubs and dance bars in the past two weeks and detained 1,500 people saying many were running bars where "nude dances" were performed, not allowed by law in the Hindu majority society

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Fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), poses with their gear at the militia's creek camp in the Niger Delta on September 17, 2008. Armed Nigerian militants who have declared an "oil war" on September 14, in response to what it said was an unprovoked attack by the army, claimed to have blown up a major pipeline in their latest attack on oil installations in the region. MEND, the most prominent of the groups operating in the creeks and swamps of the Niger Delta, said it blew up a pipeline it believes is operated by Royal Dutch Shell and Italy's Agip. The rebels moved in with speed boats, dynamite and hand grenades in their attack on the Orubiri flow station, the army said. MEND says it is fighting for local people to get a greater share of the huge oil revenues. Since MEND took up arms in early 2006, Nigeria's oil output has been cut by at least one quarter due to kidnappings and sabotage in the Delta. Hurricane Barbarossa is the code name MEND has given to its new offensive against foreign majors. "I derive satisfaction in destruction of oil installations in the Niger Delta", said Boy Loaf, leader of the militants.

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Policemen approach La Mesa jail during a riot in Tijuana in Mexico's state of Baja California September 17, 2008. Police said they have quelled a second riot in three days at the state jail in Tijuana.

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An injured prisoner is removed by policemen during a riot at La Mesa jail in Tijuana in Mexico's state of Baja California September 17, 2008. Police said they have quelled a second riot in three days at the state jail in Tijuana.

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Prisoners on a roof throw stones during a riot at La Mesa jail in Tijuana in Mexico's state of Baja California September 17, 2008. Police said they have quelled a second riot in three days at the state jail in Tijuana.

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policeman fires tear gas during a riot at La Mesa jail in Tijuana, in Mexico's state of Baja California September 14, 2008.

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Aussie flares light up the night sky at Forward Operating Base Armadillo, helping to observe and deter Taliban activity.

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Australian Gunners from 8th / 12th Medium Regiment in a firing mission during Operation Herrick in Kajaki, Afghanistan

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An Australian soldier assumes a solid fighting position behind rocks and tree roots during a training exercise Sept. 11 at Hohenfels, Germany. The maneuvers helped prepare the unit for Cooperative Spirit 2008, a joint training event for the America, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand Armies Program. ABCA has been dedicated to close interopability gaps between the five nations for decades.

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soldier loads ammunitions to a Philippine Air Force MG520 attack helicopter at a military camp in Iligan City, in southern Philippine island of Mindanao on September 17, 2008 after airstrikes on separatist Muslim rebels position in Calkanogas, Lanao del Sur province. Muslim rebels belonging to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) attacked an army patrol in the restive southern region, leaving seven soldiers and one militant dead in fresh fightings military officials said. About 100 people have died and another 500,000 people have been displaced in the fighting, which has reached its worst point in five years, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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GROTON, Conn. (Sept. 16, 2008) Adm. Paolo La Rosa, chief of staff of the Italian Navy, adjusts the Italian flag while taking a tour of Italian submarine ITS Salvatore Todaro (S 526) during a visit to Submarine Base New London. This was La Rosa's first visit to Naval Submarine Base New London and Torado's visit marks a historic moment, for this is the first time since World War II an Italian submarine has crossed the Atlantic. (U.S. Navy photo by John Narewski/Released)

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A Yemeni soldier sat guard in front of damaged vehicles outside the main entrance of the United States Embassy in Sana, the capital of Yemen. Militants disguised as soldiers detonated two car bombs outside the embassy compound on Wednesday morning, killing 16 people, including 6 of the attackers, Yemeni officials said.
Photo: Hussein Malla/Associated Press

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An army soldier talks residents during a search in an area along the Tahuamanu River where an estimated 15 people died on Sept. 11 in political clashes near Porvenir village in Bolivia's Pando

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An army soldier changes cartridges as he prepares to cover his comrades entering a home as they search the area along the Tahuamanu River where an estimated 15 people died on on Sept. 11 in political clashes near Porvenir village in Bolivia's Pando province, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008.

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An army soldier talks on his radio during a military search along the Tahuamanu River where an estimated 15 people died on Sept. 11 in political clashes near Porvenir village in Bolivia's Pando province, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. An estimated 80 troops arrived to search for wounded people and others who may be in hiding as dozens are still being declared missing by relatives.

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An Israeli soldier supports the Peruvian team during a David Cup tennis match between Peru's Ivan Miranda and Israel�s Dudi Sela on September 19, 2008 at the Canada stadium in Ramat Hasharon, north of Tel Aviv. Israel is facing Peru in the Davis Cup world group play-offs between September 19-21 in which the winners advance to World Group in 2009.

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An Israeli soldier arrests a Palestinian youth at a crossing point near Israel�s controversial separation barrier in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as Muslim men and women queued to cross to Jerusalem for prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on September 19, 2008.

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Bolivian police officers stood guard near the building where Leopoldo Fernandez, the governor of Pando Province, is being held after his arrest in La Paz, Bolivia's capital. The arrest increased tension between the government of President Evo Morales and the authorities in the tropical lowlands. Pando is an Amazonian department that was the site of the worst violence last week between anti-government and pro-Morales protesters. The divisions that led to the violence involve disputes over petroleum royalties and Mr. Morales's efforts to overhaul the Constitution to empower the impoverished indigenous majority.
Photo: David Mercado/Reuters

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South Ossetian soldiers march during a rehearsal of the Indpendence Day parade in Tskhinvali on September 19, 2008. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said he would appeal for help in his country's conflict with Russia when he addresses the UN General Assembly next week.

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Soldiers stand next to cash seized by Mexico's army that is on display for the media in Mexico City September 18, 2008. Mexican soldiers hunting for drug cartels seized a stash of more than $26 million in cash at a house in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, the defense ministry said on Thursday.

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Thai soldiers walks past a school building that was set on fire by suspected militants in Yala on September 19, 2008. Three people have been killed in fresh separatist violence in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, while an elementary school was burned to the ground, police said

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German ISAF soldiers patrol atop armored vehicles called 'Mungos' on the outskirts of Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. The German Army has about 3,300 troops serving under NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) command in northern Afghanistan.

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A German Bundeswehr army soldier of ISAF forces gives instructions to a Canadian air force C-130 aircraft before taking off from Feyzabad airfield, north of Kabul, September 18, 2008.

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A demonstrator from "European Peace Action" is apprehended by police outside the Swedish factory Aimpoint on September 19, 2008 in Malmoe. The factory make accessories for riffles used by the American army in Irak. Some 20,000 anti-globalisation protesters are set to march in Sweden on September 20, in what is expected to be one of the biggest demonstrations ever held in the Scandinavian country, organisers and police said. The demonstration, titled "Power to the People -- Against Capitalism and Environmental Destruction. Another World is Possible!", will begin in a working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Malmoe.

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Rebels of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), loyal to leader Minni Minawi, ride in a pick-up truck in El-Fasher, the administrative capital of north Darfur on September 19, 2008. Sudan's Vice President Ali Osman Taha met today with Minnawi, a rebel leader turned presidential advisor, following accusations that Sudanese government troops had attacked the Darfur rebels last week, the only group to have signed a 2006 peace deal with the capital Khartoum.

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Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) troops march in the rain to welcome international members of the Beijing Military Attache Corps to the PLA naval base at Hong Kong's Stonecutters island September 19, 2008.

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Police officers run for cover as Kashmiri protesters throw stones at them in Srinagar, India, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. Government forces fired tear gas and swung batons to disperse hundreds of Muslim protesters demonstrating against Indian rule in the disputed region of Kashmir on Friday, officials said.

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Commandos of Charlie Company, 6th Battalion Iraqi Special Operations Force along with U.S. Military advisors conduct a capability demonstration for the British General Officer Commanding, Maj. Gen. Andy Salmon, officer British Empire, Multi-National Division (Southeast) on Aug. 29, 2008, in Basra, Iraq.
(Photographer: Pfc. Rhonda Roth-Cameron : Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq)

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