World Armed Forces Pictures & Videos

A raven flies over an Israeli army Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) at the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on January 3, 2009. The Israeli military has carried out more than 700 strikes on Gaza since it launched a massive offensive on Hamas a week ago, killing at least 435 Palestinians, the army and medics said today.

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A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows a bomb dropped by an Israeli air force F-16 jet exploding in Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip, on January 3, 2009. The Israeli military has carried out more than 700 strikes on Gaza since it launched a massive offensive on Hamas a week ago, killing at least 435 Palestinians, the army and medics said today.

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Sri Lankan Army soldiers secure an explosion site in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. A small bomb planted under a car exploded on a busy street in Colombo Saturday wounding three people, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (front) visits the Seoul Ryu Kyong Soo 105 Tank Division at an undisclosed place in North Korea, in this undated picture released by North Korea's official news agency KCNA January 3, 2009. KCNA did not state expressly the date when the picture was taken.

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Riot police clash with protesters in Amman January 2, 2009. Riot police fired teargas to push back hundreds of Jordanian protesters marching on the Israeli embassy in Amman after Friday Muslim prayers to protest at Israel's attacks in Gaza. (Reuters)

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Indonesian police officers stand guard outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Jan 3, 2009. Security remains tight at the embassy in the world's most populous Muslim country, where Islamist groups staged almost daily protests against Israeli air strikes on Gaza. (AP / Achmad Ibrahim)

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A pro-Palestinian protester burns an Israeli flag in front of riot policemen during a rally outside Israel's embassy in Athens January 3, 2009. Greek police fired teargas at protesters outside the Israeli embassy in Athens during demonstrations against Israel's offensive in Gaza, police said on Saturday.

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Some of the thousands of pro-Palestinian supporters fight to get to the Israeli embassy in Athens as Greek riot police stand guard on January 3, 2009, during a demonstration against the Israeli attacks in Gaza. Israeli artillery today bombarded the Gaza Strip in a dramatic escalation of the campaign against Hamas after a week of air attacks which have left more than 450 Palestinians dead.

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An Israeli police officer pushes away a right wing Israeli activist during a demonstration of thousands of left wing activists protesting against Israel's military operation in Gaza, in Tel Aviv,Israel, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. Israeli ground forces crossed the border with the Gaza Strip after nightfall Saturday, Israel's military said, in an expansion of its week-old offensive against Hamas militants.

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An Islamic insurgent guards Howlwadaag police station in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. Islamic insurgents took over police stations in the Somali capital Saturday as Ethiopian troops pulled out, raising fears the Ethiopians' departure will set off a violent scramble for control over the country, witnesses said.

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French riot police apprehend a protester during a demonstration against Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza strip in Paris, Saturday Jan. 3, 2009. Thousands of protesters across Europe march, rally and even hurl shoes or stones to demand an end to Israel's week-old campaign of air attacks on the Gaza Strip.

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Members of the public take a ride on top of an Indian Army T-72 battle tank during a 'Know Your Army' event at Morhabadi Ground in Ranchi. January 6, 2009

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Soldiers walk on shattered glass at Maharaja's privately owned channel at Depanama, suburbs of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. Armed men attacked a private Sri Lankan television station early Tuesday, tossing hand grenades, spraying the building with gunfire and sparking a blaze that caused heavy damage, witnesses and police said. (AP / Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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An Israeli Army mobile artillery piece fires towards targets in the southern Gaza Strip, on the Israel side of the border with Gaza Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009

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Pakistani army troops guard the streets during a Shi'ite Muslim religious procession ahead of the Ashura festival in Lahore January 6, 2009. Ashura falls on the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar to commemorates the death of the Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in 680 A.D. during the battle of Kerbala.

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Military personnel and members of Cambodian People's Party (CPP) participate in a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime at the National Stadium in Phnom Penh on January 7, 2009. Tens of thousands of Cambodians cheered for the 30th anniversary of the ouster of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime at an elaborate stadium ceremony mounted by the country's powerful ruling party January 7.

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Italian peacekeeping troops from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol the zone of the launching ground of rockets at Israel in the village of Tayr Harfa in southern Lebanon on January 8, 2009. Several rockets slammed today into northern Israel from Lebanon with the army returning fire, as the Jewish state entered the 13th day of a massive offensive on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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An Israeli soldier raises his arms as a mobile artillery unit fires a shell into Gaza before the commencement of a temporary cease fire on January 7, 2009 along the Israeli, Gaza border in Israel. Israel has agreed to a daily three hour cease fire in order to open a humanitarian corridor into Gaza following a day of significant conflict and an increasing death toll. (Photo: Spencer Platt)

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Soldiers rested on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza during the three-hour cease-fire. The afternoon lull in the fighting suggested Israel might be responding, if only tentatively, to diplomatic pressure, a day after Israeli mortar shells killed as many as 40 Palestinians, among them women and children, outside a United Nations school in Gaza. (Photo: Moises Saman)

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Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso (C) waves before his departure to Tokyo at an air force base in Seongnam, south of Seoul January 12, 2009. Aso and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak agreed Monday to work closely to tackle the global financial turmoil and cooperate with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to contain North Korea's nuclear ambitions, while leaving aside their historical and territorial rows. (Reuters)

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An Israeli army officer inspects the damage after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza hit a house in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009. (AP / Ariel Schalit

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In this photo released by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), Israeli soldiers walk towards the northern Gaza Strip January 12, 2009. An Israeli military spokesman said army reservists had been thrown into the campaign that Israel launched with the declared aim of ending cross-border rocket attacks from the Hamas-ruled territory to its south.

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An army helicopter searches for the attackers of a military post, in Tacuati, 360 kilometres (224 miles) north of Asuncion January 12, 2009. A security operation was mounted in the area of Tacuati after a military outpost was robbed of its weapons and set on fire on December 31, 2008 by a peasant group called "Army of the Paraguayan People", the army spokesperson said. (Reuters)

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An Indonesian Navy boat comes into port after searching for survivors after the 700 ton ferry, Teratai Prima sank Monday Jan. 12, 2009 in Pare-Pare, West Sulawesi, Indonesia. Rocky seas hindered rescuers Monday as they searched for nearly 250 people missing and feared dead after a ferry capsized off Indonesia's Sulawesi island.

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Israeli police officers stand guard near the home of Ala Abu Dhaim in the West Bank village of Jabel Mukaber near Jerusalem January 19, 2009, as it is being sealed to prevent his family from inhabiting it, implementing an Israeli high court order. On March 6, 2008 Abu Dhaim killed eight students at one of Jerusalem's most prominent Jewish religious schools, the deadliest Palestinian attack on Israelis in two years.

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Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian stone-thrower (C) protesting against the sealing of Ala Abu Dhaim's home in the West Bank village of Jabel Mukaber near Jerusalem January 19, 2009. Workers on Monday sealed the home to prevent Abu Dhaim's family from inhabiting it, implementing an Israeli high court order.

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A Palestinian woman confronts an Israeli police officer after her son, a Palestinian stone-thrower protesting the sealing of Ala Abu Dhaim's home, was detained in the West Bank village of Jabel Mukaber near Jerusalem January 19, 2009.

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Riot police officers arrest a protester near the Bulgarian Parliament building in Sofia, in this January 14, 2009 file photo. In European Union countries from Greece to Bulgaria, the economic crisis has dashed hopes for prosperity among the middle-classes and young people, compounding resentment of governments already exposed by perceived nepotism, arrogance and corruption.

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A truck loaded with supplies for NATO forces waits to cross the northwestern Pakistan-Afghanistan border on the outskirts of Peshawar January 19, 2009. Supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan through Pakistan's Khyber Pass were briefly suspended on Monday after militants attacked an army camp, killing a paramilitary soldier and wounding 10, an official said.

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Israeli soldiers play basketball at a school in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. Monday was the first day that high school students in Sderot went back to school since the army incursion into Gaza started over three weeks ago. Israel hopes to pull all its troops out of the Gaza Strip by the time Barack Obama is inaugurated as president of the United States on Tuesday, Israeli officials said. Israel made this plan known at a dinner Sunday with European leaders who came to the region in an effort to consolidate the fragile cease-fire that Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers declared on Sunday after a devastating, three-week Israeli onslaught. The pullout could only be carried out if militants continue to halt their fire, the officials said.

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South Korean marines stand guard at their seashore guard post in Gimpo, near the Military Demarcation Line separating the two Koreas, northwest of Seoul, January 19, 2009. South Korea on Monday dismissed as largely a repeat of past rhetoric the communist North's latest threat to wipe out the government in Seoul, which came days before Barack Obama is sworn in as the new U.S. president.

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Military cadets jump into an ice-cold water of the Don River after it was blessed by an Orthodox priest on Epiphany on Jan. 19, 2008, in Rostov-on-Don - about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow. Thousands of Russian Orthodox Church followers plunged into icy rivers and ponds across the country to mark Epiphany, cleansing themselves with water deemed holy for the day. Water that is blessed by a cleric on Epiphany is considered holy and pure until next year's celebration, and is believed to have special powers of protection and healing. The Russian Orthodox Church follows the old Julian calendar, according to which Epiphany falls on Jan. 19.

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BAHRAIN (Jan. 14, 2009) Lt. Nicholas Quihuis, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 2, left, and a Bahrain Royal Field Engineer fill the water containers of a Boot Banger water charge on a Bahraini Military training range during Neon Response 09. Neon Response 09 is a bilateral EOD engagement between the United States Navy, Royal Bahrain Navy and Bahrain Defense Force Engineer Regiment EOD Forces. Its purpose is to increase tactical proficiency of U.S. Navy and Bahrain EOD forces, broaden levels of cooperation, enhance mutual maritime capability and support long-term regional influence. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Charles Panter/Released)

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BAHRAIN (Jan. 14, 2009) The detonation of a Boot Banger water charge demonstrates its destructive power at a Bahraini Military training range during Neon Response 09. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Charles Panter/Released)

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NORFOLK (Jan. 14, 2009) Cdr. Enoch Bello, a Nigerian naval officer, and Capt. Cynthia Thebaud, commodore of Destroyer Squadron 60, speak with local media before deploying with the amphibious transport dock ship USS Nashville (LPD 13) for Africa Partnership Station (APS) 2009. APS is an international initiative developed by Naval forces Europe, which aims to work cooperatively with U.S. and international partners to improve maritime safety and security in western Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matthew Bookwalter/Released)

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BAHRAIN (Jan. 15, 2009) Lt. Nicholas Quihuis, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 2, shows Bahrain Royal Field Engineers how to set up a water bottle charge for a bomb disposal training scenario at a Bahraini military training range during Neon Response 2009. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Charles Panter/Released)

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BAHRAIN (Jan. 15, 2009) Bahrain Royal Field Engineers examine a simulated improvised explosive device (IED) as part of a bomb disposal training scenario given by Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 2 at a Bahraini military training range during Neon Response 2009. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Charles Panter/Released)

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BAHRAIN (Jan. 15, 2009) Bahrain Royal Field Engineers don a bomb suit before a bomb disposal training scenario at a Bahraini military training range during Neon Response 2009. Neon Response is a bilateral explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) engagement between the U.S. Navy, Royal Bahrain Navy and Bahrain Defense Force Engineer Regiment EOD Forces. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Charles Panter/Released)

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TLANTIC OCEAN (Jan. 15, 2009) Capt. Cindy Thebaud, mission commander of Africa Partnership Station 2009, mans the rails with British royal Navy Cmdr. Mark Fitzsimmons, Africa Partnership Station director of staff, as the amphibious transport dock ship USS Nashville (LPD 13) departs Naval Station Norfolk. Africa Partnership Station is an international initiative developed by Naval Forces Europe to work cooperatively with U.S. and international partners to improve maritime safety and security in western Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Douglas High/Released)

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Jan. 19, 2009) British Cmdr. Mark Fitzsimmons, director of staff for Africa Partnership Station (APS) 2009, fires the M-240 machine gun while aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Nashville (LPD 13). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matthew Bookwalter/Released)

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PEARL HARBOR (Jan. 9, 2009) Republic of Korea Navy Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jung Ok-Keun, right, discusses various tactical scenarios and operations with Cmdr. Heedong Choi, commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90). Jung visited various military installations throughout Hawaii to enhance mutual interest in maritime security and stability and build upon mutual trust and understanding. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Michael Hight/Released)

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PEARL HARBOR (Jan. 9, 2009) Cmdr. Heedong Choi, right, commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90), explains various shipboard operations to Republic of Korea Navy Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jung Ok-Keun. Jung is visiting various military installations throughout Hawaii. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Michael Hight/Released)

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Security personnel investigate the debris of a car after a suicide car bomb in Herat January 21, 2009. A suicide car bomb killed two Afghan soldiers and wounded three more on Wednesday in the western province of Herat, the Defence Ministry said. (Reuters)

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Commander of the Kosovo Security Forces (KSF) General Sylejman Selimi inspects troops in Pristina January 21, 2009. The KSF became operational on Wednesday. (Reuters)

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Members of the Kosovo Security Forces (KSF) stand for inspection, in Pristina January 21, 2009. The KSF became operational on Wednesday. The force has 2,500 active members. 800 reserve members will not have heavy weaponry. (Reuters)

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A Colombian narcotics officer descends from a Black Hawk helicopter during a photo opportunity showcasing a training drill near Saravena January 21, 2009. (Reuters)

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South Korean navy Ship Salvage Unit soldiers shout slogans in the sea during their winter exercise in Jinhae, south of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009. (AP / Choi Byung-gil)

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