World Armed Forces Pictures & Videos

A girl walked alongside army soldiers in eastern Congo, where a joint Congolese-Rwandan military offensive has been raging to wipe out several rebel groups terrorizing the region. In a major turning point, Laurent Nkunda, the fearsome Congolese rebel leader who has been fighting the military, was arrested Thursday night along the Congolese-Rwandan border.
Photo: Lionel Healing/Agence France-Presse -- ***** Images

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A Congolese soldier watches a road as Rwandan Defence Force (RDF) soldiers pass by on January 24, 2009 in Jomba, 65kms north east of the provincial capital Goma. Large numbers of RDF troops have crossed over into the Democratic Republic of Congo to aid the Congolese army in an operation against Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels. The FDLR control large parts of eastern Congo and number some 6,000 armed fighters.

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Rwandan Defence Force soldiers (RDF) walk down a road on January 24, 2009 in Jomba, 65kms north east of the provincial capital Goma. At least 5,000 Rwandan troops have been deployed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a UN official has said, as part of a joint operation by Rwanda and its neighbour to eradicate Hutu rebels. The operation aims to root out Rwandan Hutu rebels from the Democratic Force for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

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Security was bolstered in the Indian-controlled city of Srinagar in Kashmir ahead of Republic Day ceremonies scheduled for Jan. 26 celebrating India's independence in 1950.
Photo: Farooq Khan/European Pressphoto Agency

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Israeli border police fired tear gas during a Palestinian rally in the West Bank city of Hebron. Several hundred Hamas supporters held the rally to claim victory in the Gaza Strip war, throwing stones at Israeli officers.
Photo: Nasser Shiyoukhi/Associated Press

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Thai bomb squad members inspect the site of a bomb blast triggered by suspected separatist Muslim militants in Sri Sa Korn district, in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat on January 23, 2009. Suspected separatists detonated a road side bomb as Thai soldiers were patrolling, injured two of them. More than 3,500 people have been killed since unrest erupted in Thailand's Muslim-majority southern provinces five years ago.

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An Indian Army tank takes part on the full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day parade in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata January 24, 2009. India will celebrate its Republic Day on Monday.

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Members of the Afghan national army's 98th battalion attend their graduation ceremony at a military training center in Kabul, the capital. January 22, 2009 (EPA / S. Sabawoon)

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Indian Air Force personnel march during the Republic Day parade rehearsal in New Delhi. January 23, 2009 (Associated Press / Gurinder Osan)

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Indian Border Security Force soldiers ride their camels in formation during the full dress rehearsal of the Indian Republic Day parade on January 23, 2009 in New Delhi, India.

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NEW DELHI, INDIA - Indian paramilitary soldiers march during the final full dress rehearsal for the Indian Republic Day parade on January 23, 2009 in New Delhi, India. India will celebrate its 60th Republic Day on January 26 with a large military parade. (AFP / Raveendran)

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TANEGASHIMA, JAPAN - A Japanese rocket H-2A carrying satellites blasts off from the Tanegashima Space Center on January 23, 2009 in Tanegashima island in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan's southern island of Kyushu. Following a two-day delay due to bad weather Japan launched the world's first satellite that will exclusively collect data on greenhouse gas emissions around the world, as part of global efforts to tackle climate change. (STR / AFP)

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A Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to hurl a stone during a protest against the construction of Israel's separation barrier in Qalqilya, West Bank. January 23, 2009 (AP / Nasser Ishtayeh)

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An Israeli police officer and a Palestinian man argue after the police denied entry to the Al Aqsa Mosque, citing security reasons, near east Jerusalem's Old City. January 23, 2009 (AP / Dan Balilty)

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Convicted Islamic militant Abdul Fatak Paute is led away by Filipino jail guards together with two others after they were sentenced by a Manila court on January 23, 2009. The three Islamic militants were jailed for 20 years by a court for a series of bombings in the Philippine capital that killed 22 people and left more than 100 injured during the December 30, 2000. The fourth alleged Jemaah defendant, Fathur Roman Alghozi of Indonesia, later escaped from prison but was shot dead in 2007 by government forces who launched a manhunt in the southern Philippines.

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National Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro gestures as he makes his point during an interview by the Associated Press at the Defense headquarters in suburban Quezon City north of Manila, Philippines, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Philippine troops have been ordered not to use force to rescue three kidnapped Red Cross workers being held by al-Qaida-linked militants, the defense chief said Friday.

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Philippines' Lieutenant General Nelson Allaga (L) in charge of the Western Midanao Command welcomes Rear Admiral Edward Winter (C) commander of the US Navy Naval Warfare Command during a visit to a military base in Zamboanga City southern island of Mindanao on January 21, 2009. The Philippine military welcomed a US offer by the US Ambassador Kristie Kenny to assist in the rescue effort on the kidnapped three personnel of International Committee of the Red Cross in nearby Jolo island saying US troops in the past had helped provide intelligence and technical assistance in tracking down kidnap victims.

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Riot police block protesters, mostly farmers, from marching closer to the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines, for a rally Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the 1987 violent protest by farmers demanding a land reform that killed 13 peasants.

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An Indian National Cadet Corps member adjusts her friend's hair during a rehearsal for the Republic Day parade in Srinagar January 24, 2009. India will celebrate its Republic Day on Monday.

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Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jets fly past during the full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi January 23, 2009. India will celebrate its Republic Day on Monday.

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Satyam Computers Services Inc. founder B. Ramalinga Raju, center right wearing grey sweater, is escorted by policemen to Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Raju used his elderly mother's name to siphon $1 billion from the company and drastically inflated the number of employees to divert funds, a prosecutor said in court Thursday.

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A masked Palestinian militant from Hamas carries his weapon as he walks in the rubble of a house destroyed in the recent Israeli military operation in the devastated area of east Jebaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009.

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Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda salutes during a rally in Rutshuru, 70 km (45 miles) north of Goma in eastern Congo, November 22, 2008. Rwanda and Congo on January 23, 2009 announced the arrest in Rwandan territory of Nkunda during a joint military operation against rebels on their Great Lakes border.

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A policemen stand guard near the wreckage of a vehicle used in a suicide car bomb attack in Garma, 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad, January 24, 2009. A suicide bomber drove a car loaded with explosives into a police checkpoint northwest of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least five policemen and wounding six other police officers and seven civilians a week before the provincial elections, police said.

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Police clash with protesters during a rally in Athens January 24, 2009. Anarchists threw fire bombs and clashed with Greek police in Athens on Saturday during a march to parliament by more than 1,000 demonstrators protesting over the police killing of a teenager last month.

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A fireman holds a hose next to a burnt car following riots in Athens January 24, 2009. Anarchists threw fire bombs and clashed with Greek police in Athens on Saturday during a march to parliament by more than 1,000 demonstrators protesting over the police killing of a teenager last month.

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Policewomen attend a conference for police commanders in Sanaa January 24, 2009. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in a speech during the conference that his country would receive 94 inmates who are to be released from the military prison at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, within two to three months.

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Illegal immigrants from North Africa are escorted by the Coast Guard as they arrive on southern Italy's Lampedusa island in this February 17, 2006 file photo. More than 1,000 asylum-seekers and would-be immigrants broke out of an Italian reception centre on the island of Lampedusa on Saturday and marched to the town hall a day after the U.N. criticised conditions at the camp. Police said the group forced open the gates of the camp and marched peacefully to the nearby town centre.

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Members of a police bomb squad load a truck with corroded World War Two bombs for proper disposal, outside the police headquarters in Manila January 24, 2009. Philippine explosives experts have removed about 60 World War Two mortar rounds found in the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Manila by construction workers, officials said Saturday.

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German riot police line up in front of protestors during a demonstration against the clearing of a huge wood area for a new runway for the airport in Frankfurt January 24, 2009.

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Protesters scuffle against riot policemen blocking their march at a rally in Seoul January 23, 2009. More than 1,000 people rallied on Friday to demand President Lee Myung-bak resign and to mourn for victims of Tuesday's fire accident. Six people, including a police commando, died in the blaze at a five-storey building where authorities had moved in at dawn to break up a protest. The protesters had occupied the building since Monday to demand more compensation to quit the property, scheduled for demolition as part of a major development in the area.

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A kite with a "No" written on it flies over a group of riot policemen standing guard near thousands of students who demonstrate in Caracas on January 23, 2009 against a constitutional amendment that, if passed in a referendum, would allow the President unlimited re-election. The amendment, which was approved by the National Assembly in an initial vote last month and would permit Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to put himself forward for the 2012 presidential election, near the end of his second term, now is to be submitted to a referendum, possibly on February 15, when it could conceivably founder as a similar measure did in late 2007.

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Members of the Cambodian police (C) pull down structures at a slum during the eviction of families in the capital Phnom Penh on January 24, 2009. Around 250 police, many armed and in riot gear, and more than 200 workers moved early in the morning to evict more then hundreds of families refusing to leave the shantytown.

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Members of the Kuwaiti National Guard approaches the U.S. Embassy, Kuwait during a special bilateral-training event. The exercise included Marines from the Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team posing as opposition forces.
(Official U.S. Marine Corps Photos) Released to the public.

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Wait a Sec..... Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda pictured in the post above the post above this is Wearing A US ARMY ACU!....
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PEARL HARBOR (Jan. 26, 2009) The Royal Australian Navy guided-missile frigate HMAS Melbourne (FFG 05) arrives at Naval Station Pearl Harbor for a routine port visit. Melbourne is a long-range escort ship and is one of the Royal Australian Navy's four guided-missile frigates. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Robert Stirrup/Released)

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STRAITS OF HORMUZ (Jan. 16, 2008) The German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (F 218) transits the Straits of Hormuz near the guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72). Vella Gulf is deployed as part of the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group supporting maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky/Released)

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A Congolese soldier rests in the town of Rutshuru in eastern Congo January 28, 2009. Plans to integrate Tutsi rebels into Congo's army faltered before they could begin on Wednesday, underlining the challenges facing efforts to pacify the east despite renewed Congo-Rwanda cooperation. Separately, Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels killed more than 100 people in a village in Congo in an apparent reprisal for army operations against them, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

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In this image released by Inter Services Public Relations department, Pakistan's army Chief Gen. Asfaq Pervez Kayani, right, shakes hands with a Pakistani soldier in Pakistan's troubled area of Swat on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009. Pakistan is committed to restoring government control of the Swat Valley, a scenic region increasingly under the sway of Islamist militants, the army chief said Wednesday.

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An Iraqi soldier stands guard outside a polling station in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad January 28, 2009. Soldiers, police, prisoners and displaced people began early voting on Wednesday ahead of Saturday's provincial election in Iraq, which will determine the political landscape across the country as U.S. forces withdraw. The election is the first in Iraq since 2005, and holding it peacefully will be a test of Iraq's tenuous stability as it emerges from years of sectarian war.

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Commandos from the "Floreal", a French frigate, arrest Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden in this January 27, 2009 photo released to Reuters on January 28, 2009 by the French Navy. The French frigate arrested nine Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, part of international efforts to fight gangs that hijack commercial vessels in busy shipping lanes.

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Philippine Army Cpl. Jay Mendoza gets a kiss from his 3-years-old daughter Diana during the send-off ceremony for the members of the Philippine Peace Keeping Force Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009, at the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila. A battalion of Filipino soldiers with 11 women will be part of the United Nations peace keeping force bound for Haiti and Liberia

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Iraqi army commandos queue at the Harthiya polling station to vote in the provincial elections in central Baghdad on January 28, 2009. About 614,000 Iraqi police, soldiers, prisoners and hospital patients will vote in the first stage of the country's provincial election, the nation's first ballot since 2005. Iraq's provincial councils are responsible for nominating governors who lead the administration, finance and reconstruction projects in their areas, while the security forces remain under Baghdad's control.

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Saudi Air Force officers take an oath on a small Quran during a graduation ceremony at King Faisal Air Force University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009.

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Tornado warplanes fly over the Saudi capital Riyadh during a graduation ceremony at King Faisal Air Force University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009.

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Russian Navy soldiers(sailors) stand guard in front of the Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, moored in Messina harbour during the ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the 1908 Messina's earthquake and the US and Russia's participation in the international relief effort on January 28, 2009 in Messina. More than 100 000 people died in the disaster which took place on December 28, 1908. AFP PHOTO / MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO (Photo credit should read MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Iraqi soldiers stand guard outside a polling center in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Iraq began Friday sealing its borders, halting air traffic and ordering overnight curfews in some of its largest cities on the eve of its nationwide provincial elections.

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An Iraqi police officer stands at the border crossing with Iran near Basra, southern Iraq, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009

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An Iraqi soldier stands guard outside a polling center in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009.

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An Iraqi soldier mans a machinegun on an armoured vehicle during a patrol in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad January 29, 2009. An election in two days in Iraq's most violent province, where al Qaeda and other insurgents are making a last stand, could bring Sunni Arabs back into power and ease resentment that has fuelled the bloodshed. Picture taken January 29, 2009.

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BASRA, IRAQ - JANUARY 30: Soldiers in the Iraqi Army watch as they patrol close to polling stations which will be used in tomorrow's election on January 30 2009 in Basra, Iraq. Security in Iraq's second city is being increased with a curfew and total vehicle movement ban imposed from this evening in an attempt to ensure the elections run as smoothly as possible. Many areas in Iraq are preparing for provincial elections which are being closely watched as a way of evaluating how peaceful and stable the country now is.

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BASRA, IRAQ - JANUARY 30: A Iraqi Army Humvee passes election posters for tomorrow's election posted on the streets of central Basra on January 30, 2009 in Basra, Iraq.

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Iraqi security frisks passers by along Palestine street in central Baghdad on January 30, 2009. About 15 million Iraqis are expected to vote in 14 out of 18 provinces on 31 January, the first vote since the legislative elections in 2005.

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An Iraqi soldier guards a polling station as final preparations are made for the upcoming provincial council elections in Baghdad's Sadr City district on January 30, 2009.

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Iraqi building contractors talk to U.S. military's masked Iraqi translator at Al-Salaam hospital in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad January 29, 2009. The translator is masked to protect his identification. U.S. soldiers held a meeting with officials and building contractors of the hospital on Thursday to discuss improvement of their facilities in Mosul.

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BASRA, IRAQ - JANUARY 30: A Iraqi policeman stands outside a polling station that is preparing for tomorrow's election on January 30, 2009 in Basra, Iraq.

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