World Armed Forces Pictures & Videos

A disabled Iraqi is carried into at polling station during the provincial elections in the northern restive city of Mosul, 370 kms from Baghdad on January 31 2009.

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Cuban President Raul Castro, left, takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at a Tomb of Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Castro arrived in Russian on an official visit intended to invigorate ties between the Cold War allies.

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A Sri Lankan army soldier stands guard as a military helicopter takes off in Mullaittivu, January 27, 2009. Sri Lanka's government on Friday again pledged safe passage to thousands of people trapped in fighting between the army and Tamil Tiger rebels, but said there would be no ceasefire with the separatist guerrillas. Picture taken January 27, 2009.

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An Israeli soldier looks on from behind a Palestinian flag during a demonstration against Israel's controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Ma'asarah, near Bethlehem January 30, 2009.

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An Iraqi soldier stands guard as residents wait for their turn to vote outside a polling station in Sinjar, 390 km (240 miles) northwest of Baghdad, January 31, 2009. Iraqis held their most peaceful election since the fall of Saddam Hussein on Saturday, and voting for provincial councils ended without a single major attack reported anywhere in the country

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An armed Islamist and Somali women, one of them carrying the Somali flag, at right, are seen during a rally to mark the swearing in of President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed was elected in neighboring Djibouti early Saturday after the last president, a former soldier, rebel and warlord named Abdullahi Yusuf, resigned in December after failing to pacify the country during his four-years as president.

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A Sri Lankan army soldier stands guard by a damaged building in Mullaittivu, January 27, 2009. Sri Lanka's government on Friday again pledged safe passage to thousands of people trapped in fighting between the army and Tamil Tiger rebels, but said there would be no ceasefire with the separatist guerrillas. Picture taken January 27, 2009.

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Protesters scuffle with riot police during an anti-government rally in central Seoul February 1, 2009. Thousands of people, including the opposition parties' lawmakers rallied on Sunday to denounce President Lee Myung-bak and to mourn for victims of a 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 to demand more compensation to quit the property, scheduled for demolition as part of a major development in the area

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An injured would-be immigrant is helped off a fishing boat after arriving outside the fishing village of Marsaxlokk, on the south-east coast of Malta, February 1, 2009. A group of some 300 North African migrants landed in Malta early on Sunday in the biggest single arrival on the Mediterranean island in years. Police confirmed that the migrants had arrived on a boat near the fishing village of Marsaxlokk.

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Sri Lankan army commandos & artillery are displayed during an Independence Day rehearsal in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009.

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Sri Lankan Navy is displayed during a rehearsal for the Independence Day celebration in Colombo February 2, 2009. Sri Lanka will celebrate its 61st Independence Day on February 4, 2009.

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Sri Lankan Air Force helicopters carry a national flag during a rehearsal for the Independence Day celebration in Colombo February 2, 2009.

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Soldiers patrol the area around ministries on February 2, 2009 in Antananarivo as the mayor of the Madagascan capital, Andry Rajoelina, holds a meeting before several thousands of supporters in the main square of the city. Offices and schools in the Madagascan capital re-opened on February 2 but die-hard protestors vowed to keep up efforts to bring down President Marc Ravalomanana. Rajoelina, 34, has led a campaign to oust Ravalomanana, which descended into violence last week at the cost of at least 68 lives. Placard reads: "Ravalomanana, you must go."

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French soldiers of International Security Assistance Force investigate the site of a suicide attack in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. The suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the Afghan capital Sunday, but there was no immediate word on casualties, a police officer said. Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Protesters push their way past soldiers standing guard near the Government House in Bangkok on January 31, 2009. Thousands of protesters marched on Thailand's seat of government on Saturday and early Sunday, delivering an ultimatum to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to call elections within 15 days or face bigger street demonstrations. Thai media said 30,000 supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) were at Government House, which was occupied for three months last year by the royalist People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), a rival protest group.

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Soldiers guard the gates of the Government House from protesters in Bangkok in the early hours of February 1, 2009.

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Thai Muslim students are pictured on a motorcycle riding past an army vehicle in southern Thailand's Pattani province, south of Bangkok February 2, 2009. Suspected Muslim rebels killed and then decapitated two Thai paramilitary rangers on Monday in the Muslim-majority far south, which has been plagued by five years of separatist unrest, police said.

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Former hostages, police officers Walter Lozano, left, and Alexis Torres, right, wave upon their arrival to the Vanguardia's airport in Villavicencio, Colombia Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. Colombia's FARC rebels handed over three police officers and a soldier to the International Red Cross in a mission marred by accusations of military interference.

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Rescued Colombian police officer Juan Galicia speaks during a news conference conference at the Casa Narino palace in Bogota, as Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe looks on, February 2, 2009. FARC guerrillas freed four hostages to a Red Cross commission on Sunday in the first negotiated handover of captives in a year by Latin America's oldest left-wing insurgency. From L to R are the rescued hostages: police officers Walter Lozano, Galicia, Alexis Torres and Colombian soldier William Dominguez.

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Philippine National Police SWAT members secure the site following a powerful explosion at a fireworks factory at Trece Martires city, Cavite province, 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Manila, Philippines, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. At least six people were killed and scores injured when a powerful explosion obliterated a fireworks factory Thursday, officials said.

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Indonesian air force officials inspect a Russian Sukhoi Su-30MK2 multi-functional fighter jet during a handover ceremony in Makassar February 2, 2009.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez salutes supporters at a rally in La Guaira, in this December 30, 1999 file photo. President Hugo Chavez marked 10 years in office on Monday February 2, 2009, declaring a national holiday to celebrate just hours before the anniversary in a sign of how personalized his grip on Venezuela has become. (Reuters)

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A police officer clutches a man suspected of links to organized crime and radical Islamic militant groups in Barcelona, Spain. Spanish police arrested 15 people suspected of forging passports and other documents for Al Qaeda, news reports said. Since 9/11 and the Madrid commuter-train bombings in 2004, dozens of suspected Islamic militants have been arrested in Spain. February 3, 2009 (AP / Manu Fernandez)

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Greek police club a farmer from the island of Crete during the second day of protests in the port of Piraeus to protest government farm policy. February 3, 2009 (EPA / Orestis Panagiotou)

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A farmer riding a tractor uses a fire extinguisher against riot police, in background, as a police officer responds with pepper spray, at the main port of Piraeus, near Athens, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009. Police fired tear gas and clashed with farmers for a second straight day Tuesday at Greece's largest port. The violence occurred after police stopped protesters who sailed from the island of Crete with their tractors, seeking to stage a protest in the capital, Athens. (AP / Thanassis Stavrakis)

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A farmer throws a stone against police during a protest at Piraeus port near Athens February 3, 2009. Greek riot police clashed with protesting farmers at the port for a second day on Tuesday, firing teargas to disperse crowds trying to push through a police blockade. (Reuters)

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Last Month shots of Chevalier Paul (Forbin's sister ship) Destroyer trials at Lorient from PHILIP PLISSON for meretmarine.com

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Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, front left, sings the Sri Lankan national anthem as Air Force commander Air Vice Marshal Roshan Goonatilleke, center left, and Inspector General of Police Jayantha Wickremeratne, right, salute during the Independence Day celebration in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. (AP / Eranga Jayawardena)

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Iraqi General Imad Ismail, head of the Taji police force, is given the symbolic key by US Lt. Col. Tom Boccardi, during the handover ceremony at the al-Awad joint security station in Taji, north of Baghdad on February 4, 2009. The camp was handed over from the US military to the Iraqi security forces.

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The Safir rocket, carrying Iran's Omid 2 satellite, is launched from an unknown location on Monday. Iran joined eight other nations who have managed to send objects into orbit, with its launching of a satellite. Amateur observers have already spotted the craft moving slowly across the night sky. Iran's first orbital launching coincided with celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and immediately raised concerns in the United States and other countries about Iran's nuclear ambitions and its deployment of long-range missiles with potential military uses. (European Pressphoto Agency)

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A worker stands up in front of riot policemen during a rally held by workers against the global economic crisis and unemployment in Santiago, Chile, February 3, 2009. (Reuters)

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Iraqi soldiers secure a street in the mainly Shiite Muslim Kadhimiya District of Baghdad on February 3 2009, during the official opening of blocked roads by Iraqi Major General Qassim Atta, spokesman for the Baghdad operations. Four main thoroughfares leading into the Kadhimiya district were opened today after some two years of closure mainly due to the sectarian violence that marred the city.

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Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand guard near the site of bomb blast in the Khyber agency on the outskirts of Peshawar February 6, 2009. A suicide car bomber blew himself up and wounded seven people on Friday when police stopped him on the road through Pakistan's Khyber Pass, a vital supply route for Western forces in Afghanistan.

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An Israeli soldier raises his leg to keep Palestinian protestors away during a demonstration against Israel's controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Jayyus near Qalqilya on February 6, 2009. Israel says the 650-km (405-mile) barrier is necessary to protect itself from "terrorist" attacks but the Palestinians call it an "apartheid wall" and complain that parts of the West Bank are being cut off. In 2004, the International Court of Justice issued a non-binding ruling declaring parts of the barrier to be illegal and calling for their removal, something Israel has refused to do.

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An Israeli soldier gestures as a Palestinian man reacts to his son's arrest during a demonstration against Israel's controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Jayyus near Qalqilya on February 6, 2009.

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Rwandan soldiers carry their weapons through the village of Pinga in eastern Congo, February 5, 2009. Several thousand Rwandan troops are spearheading a joint Congolese-Rwandan operation to hunt down Hutu extremist rebels in the wilds of eastern Congo in an effort to address the root cause of 15 years of conflict in Congo.

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A Brazilian helicopter, flying under the flag of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), takes off on February 5, 2009, from the airport Alfonso Bonilla Aragon, in Palmira, Valle del Cauca, to get released FARC hostage Sigifredo Lopez --a former deputy abducted on April 11, 2002. Lopez is the last released hostage of a group of six which includes former governor of the province of Meta, Alan Jara, and three police officers and a soldier, freed on Febraury 3 and February 1st respectively.

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Red Cross members carry injured soldier Edison Hernandez, who survived a bus crash, at his arrival to Medellin airport, February 5, 2009. At least 20 people died after a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in Colombia's mountainous in Carmen del Atrato northwest, emergency officials said on Tuesday.

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A police officer scuffles with a protester during a demonstartion on the road to the palace where the swearing-in ceremony for the new Perak state chief minister will be held in Kuala Kangsar in Malaysia's northern state of Perak February 6, 2009. Malaysian police fired teargas on Friday at opposition supporters protesting against the government seizing power in state of Perak, widening a tense political standoff.

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Riot police shield themselves from a tear gas canister thrown back at them during a protest on the road to the palace where the swearing-in ceremony for the new Perak state chief minister will be held in Kuala Kangsar in Malaysia's northern state of Perak February 6, 2009.

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Journalists watch a German police officer with a sniffer dog search for explosives before the start of the 45th Conference on Security Policy in Munich February 6, 2009. World leaders including U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are due to participate.

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Fans of Tunisia's CS Sfaxien clash with Egypt's riot police after the team scored against Egypt's Al-Ahly during their African Super Cup soccer match at Cairo Stadium February 6, 2009.

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French riot police push students and teachers of the University of Strasbourg as they demonstrate during France's Minister for Higher Education and Research Valerie Pecresse's visit to attend the official inauguration of the university in Strasbourg February 5, 2009.

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