World Armed Forces Pictures & Videos

A policeman holds on to his hat during a protest by war veterans in front of the Serbian government building in Belgrade March 5, 2009. Veterans protested about overdue payments for time spent in the former Yugoslav army during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.

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A Palestinian woman and child carry firewood past Israeli soldiers with an army jeep in the village of Harres in the West Bank near Qalqilya city on March 5, 2009

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Palestinian militants from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) attend the funeral of fellow militant Mahmoud Hamdan in the central Gaza Strip March 5, 2009. An Israeli air strike killed three Palestinian militants, one of them Hamdan, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, said medical workers in the Hamas-controlled coastal territory. An Israeli army spokesman said the air strike targeted a group of militants who had fired an anti-tank missile towards a military patrol on the Israeli side of the border.

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A Palestinian militant (R) from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) mourns beside the body of fellow militant Mahmoud Hamdan during his funeral in the central Gaza Strip March 5, 2009

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Colombian Armed Forces Commander General Fredy Padilla (L) and U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen (2nd L) place flowers on a monument in honour of fallen soldiers as U.S. Ambasador William Browmfield looks on during a military ceremony in Bogota March 5, 2009. Mullen is in Colombia on an official visit.

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Soldiers gather in front of Guinea-Bissau's military headquarters where a bomb on Sunday killed armed forces chief of staff General Batista Tagme Na Wai, in Bissau March 5, 2009. The deaths of Na Wai and Guinea-Bissau's President Joao Bernardo Vieira, who was assassinated on Monday in an apparent revenge attack for the death of Na Wai, have removed two of the most powerful figures in Bissau's recent history. The country has suffered repeated bouts of civil unrest, military revolt and coups since winning independence in 1974 after a bloody conflict.

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Soldiers patrol a street in Bissau March 5, 2009.

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Anti-riot policemen use their shields to push back protesters in front of the U.S. embassy in Manila March 5, 2009. The protesters are demanding the immediate termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), a joint military exercise between the U.S. and the Philippine military, which is scheduled to begin in April in the central Philippines.

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A military policeman stands guard as a woman supporting Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir holds a poster during a protest against the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant for al-Bashir in Khartoum March 5, 2009. Al-Bashir announced on Thursday that 10 foreign aid agencies had been expelled, in his first public response to the ICC's call for his arrest on war crimes charges. The arrest warrant issued on Wednesday for atrocities in Sudan's western Darfur region is the first against a sitting head of state by the Hague-based ICC.

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LAHORE, PAKISTAN - MARCH 05: Police stand guard as they perform random searches at an exit from Lahore City on March 5, 2009 in Lahore, Pakistan. Lahore recovers from yesterday's terrorist attack, which saw a group of 12 men attack the Sri Lankan cricket team convoy. The attackers fired AK-47's, rockets and hurled grenades killing eight Pakistanis of which six were Police, and wounding five Sri Lankan cricketers plus the assistant coach. The attackers are still at large.

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Riot police officers patrol the streets of Naivasha town, about 100 km (62 miles) from Kenya's capital Nairobi, March 5, 2009, after members of the Mungiki sect went on the rampage blocking main road and streets using stone and borne-fires. At least two people died and Kenya's public transport was badly disrupted on Thursday when members of a feared criminal sect protested against alleged extrajudicial killings of hundreds of their members by police.

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Riot police patrol an avenue in Bogota during a protest of business owners who oppose the extension of a vehicle circulation restriction, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. For years the circulation of private vehicles has been restricted twice a week during peak hours in Bogota, but this year the city extended it for two entire days.

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Pakistani security officials examine the site of a bomb blast on the outskirts of Peshawar March 7, 2009. Eight Pakistani police and soldiers were killed on Saturday in a booby-trapped car bomb attack on a police van on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.

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Soldiers clean up the Potala Palace square in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region March 7, 2009. The Dalai Lama is "by no means a religious figure, but a political figure," Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said here Saturday during a National People's Congress press conference in Beijing, according to Xinhua News Agency.

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Indian paramilitary soldiers patrol deserted streets in Srinagar, India, Saturday, March 7, 2009. Government forces in Indian Kashmir's main city fired tear gas and used bamboo batons Saturday to disperse hundreds of angry demonstrators protesting the killing of a man by troops.

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Malaysian riot police fire tear gas at demonstrators protesting against the use of the English language in teaching science and mathematics at schools, in Kuala Lumpur March 7, 2009. Malaysian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of opposition activists demanding that science and math be taught in the national Malay language, witnesses said. Language is a sensitive issue for the country's majority Malays and represents the latest political battleground for incoming Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is already facing a challenge from a weakening economy.

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A riot policeman scuffles with demonstrators during a protest against the use of the English language in teaching science and mathematics at schools, in Kuala Lumpur March 7, 2009.

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Police work at the crime scene, where an attack on a public bus killed the driver, in Guatemala City March 6, 2008. Attacks on bus drivers are common in Guatemala where organized gangs extort money from the private companies that run the buses. According to police nearly 200 bus drivers, driver's assistants and owners have been killed in the last year.

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An Afghan policeman in civilian clothes stands inside a police station in Nimroz province March 7, 2009. Police shot dead a would-be suicide bomber as he entered a police compound in Nimroz city, 675 km (420 miles) southwest of Kabul, police said. The bomber's explosives detonated in the shooting, killing two policemen.

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Protesters attack police vans during an anti-Israel demonstration in Malmo March 7, 2009. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in a 'Stop the Match' march to protest against the Sweden vs Israel Davis Cup tennis match taking place this weekend.

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Swedish police charge towards protesters during an anti-Israel demonstration in Malmo March 7, 2009.

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An army soldier stands guard as a visitor writes on a condolence book at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, March 7, 2009. The paramilitary border guards launched their two-day mutiny last week over demands for better pay, ambushing their commanding officers in the army during an annual meeting at the guards' headquarters in Dhaka, leaving the compound littered with corpses.

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An army officer, left, talks with the father of the boy injured during the mutiny, as they seek help at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, March 7, 2009.

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Palestinian gunmen fire their weapons during the funeral of Islamic Jihad militant Mahmoud Fattouh in Gaza City, Saturday, March 7, 2009. Palestinian medics say Fattouh was killed by Israeli forces, the Israeli army says there were no operations at the time of the incident. Fattouh was alleged to have been a member of a local rocket squad.

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An army soldier checks weapons handed over to the Sri Lankan army by the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP), a group of ex-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) members, during an official ceremony in Batticaloa, about 303 km (188 miles) east of Colombo, March 7, 2009.

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Women cadets do push-ups at a military training school in Bogota March 4, 2009. Female soldiers are taking part in the first ever course that will let them pursue careers as combat officers in the army. Picture taken March 4, 2009.

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Female cadets polish the floor in a military training school in Bogota March 4, 2009.

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Shoes and army-issue bags are seen lined up at a military training school in Bogota March 4, 2009.

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Accompanied by a Turkish army officer, left, U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, waves to cameras as she visits the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, March 7, 2009. Clinton said that she was in Turkey to promote the "work the U. S. and Turkey must to do forge peace, prosperity and progress."

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One of four corpses is carried out of a house in Carouge near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 6, 2009. Alerted by a neighbor, police found the four members of a Swiss family, father, mother and the two 16 and 19 year-old children, shot dead in their apartment, in what Swiss police suspect was a domestic incident. Switzerland has a high rate of firearms-related deaths, blamed by critics on the wide availability of guns and rifles. The Alpine country has a militia army and comparatively loose gun control laws.

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North Korean Army soldiers, facing the camera, look at southern side as a South Korean Army soldier, center, stands guard at the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas, north of Seoul, Friday, March 6, 2009. Senior military officials from North Korea and the U.S.-led U.N. Command in South Korea opened talks at the border Friday, a day after the North threatened passenger planes flying near its airspace.

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A soldier uses a molecular detector during an operation following a bomb threat at a governmental finance office in the border city of Ciudad Juarez March 6, 2009. The threat prompted an operation by local police and federal forces to secure the site, local media said.

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Soldiers restrain a devotee who is in a state of trance during the annual Magic Tattoo Festival at Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Prathom province, about 80 km (50 miles) from Bangkok March 7, 2009. Thousands of believers from across Thailand travel to the monastery to attend the annual tattoo festival to have their bodies adorned with tattoos and to pay their respects to the temple's master tattooist. They believe the tattoos have mystical powers which ward off bad luck and protect them from harm.

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Pakistani officials line-up for a funeral prayer next to the coffins of bomb blast victims in Peshawar March 7, 2009.

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Pakistani policemen carry coffins of policemen who were killed in a bomb blast in Peshawar March 7, 2009. Eight Pakistani police and soldiers were killed on Saturday in a booby-trapped car bomb attack on a police van on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.

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Police forensics experts inspect a damaged car following a car bomb explosion occurred near an elementary school in the seaside southern Athens' suburb of Voula on Friday, March 6, 2009. Greek police say a bomb has exploded in a car in a southern Athens suburb, severely wounding a 62-year-old businessman. They say they believe a business dispute was behind Friday's attack.

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Seven Somalian pirates are led to court by Kenyan police officers on March 6, 2009 at the port town of Mombasa. US Naval vessel VSS Leyte Gulf intercepted last month the pirates off the Somalian coast as they attempted to board a merchant vessel. Successful pirate attacks off Somalia have dropped sharply this year amid stepped up enforcement, including the US Navy's transfer of seven suspected pirates to Kenya for trial, senior US officials said yesterday.

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Riot police push back women protesters as the latter try to hold a rally near the US Embassy in Manila, Philippines Friday March 6, 2009 to protest the alleged onerous provisions of the Visiting Forces Agreement entered into by the Philippine Government with the United States. The protesters renewed their call for the abrogation of the VFA following the Philippine Supreme Court ruling to transfer the custody to the Philippine jail of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, a US Marine convicted of raping a Filipino woman.

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Philippine National Police (PNP) members of the Regional Mobile Group (RMG) who completed the Basic Motorcycle Patrol Operation Training show their skills during a live-fire exercise inside a police headquarters in Taguig city, south of Manila March 6, 2009. The RMG riders have been trained to become adept in motorcycle driving skills so they can outrun, outmanoeuvre, and outfire riding-in-tandem criminals and suspected bank robbers during a hostile situation, a police official said.

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A Bhopal gas tragedy survivor pleads with a police officer as he orders the protesters to move away from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's office in New Delhi, India, Friday, March 6, 2009. A gas leak that killed at least 10,000 people and affected some 5,50,000 others in the central Indian city of Bhopal in December 1984 is considered one of the world's worst industrial disasters. For decades, survivors have been fighting to have the site cleaned up, but they say the efforts were slowed when Michigan-based Dow Chemical Co. took over Union Carbide in 2001, seven years after Union Carbide sold its interest in the Bhopal plant.

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A riot police officer stands guard during a demonstration by opposition supporters in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo March 5, 2009. Security forces in Madagascar deployed in force in the capital again on Thursday to prevent more opposition protests, a day after one demonstrator was killed and 14 injured. Picture taken March 5, 2009.

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Police negotiate with a woman who began shouting at them as she holds her child in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, next to the venue of this week's National People's Congress meetings, Friday, March 6, 2009. Police called in dozens of paramilitary police to clear the area of onlookers before grabbing the woman and separating her from her child, and then taking both away in a police van. Security in the area around Beijing's Great Hall of the People has been increased in an effort to prevent any protests during the annual meeting of China's legislature.

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A policewoman applies lipstick to a newly recruit of Chandigarh police during the 'International Women's Day' celebrations in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh March 8, 2009. Women around the world will celebrate International Women's Day on Sunday.

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Tibetans walk past Nepalese police officers at Bodhnath Stupa, a Buddhist religious place where most of the Tibetans stay, in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, March 8, 2009. Security in the capital has been beefed up following possible demonstrations and protests against Chinese government to mark the fifth years of Tibetan uprising day on March 10..

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A police special forces officer speaks with a street vendor selling flowers, the bestselling item of the Women's Day shopping , in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Russia, Sunday, March 8, 2009. While some former Soviet republics have dropped International Women's Day on March 8 as a relic of the Communist era, it is still an official holiday in Russia, where men give flowers and gifts to female relatives, friends and colleagues.

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A Mexican federal policeman searches a man for weapons and drugs at a night club in downtown Ciudad Juarez March 7, 2009. Mexico's bloodiest drug war city is Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, where the Mexican government this week sent hundreds of heavily armed federal forces to take over anti-drug efforts from police tainted by corruption and links to drug traffickers. Picture taken March 7.

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Car passengers wait for their car to be searched for drugs and weapons by Mexican federal police at a checkpoint in the border city of Ciudad Juarez March 7, 2009.

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Bar patrons stand against the wall as they wait to be searched for drugs and weapons by federal police during an operation in downtown Ciudad Juarez March 7, 2009.

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Police officers and soldiers stand guard at an air force base in Guatemala City, Saturday, March 7, 2009

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Police officers escort Guatemalan citizens Domingo Choj, center right, and Hector Rolando Toj, center back, upon their arrival at an air force base in Guatemala City, Saturday, March 7, 2009. According to Guatemala police director, nine gunmen were arrested after hours of fighting in western Guatemala, one of them is a Mexican national, suspected of being a recruiter for the Zetas, a group of Gulf cartel hit men.

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Police officers escort Guatemalan alleged gunmen Luis Fernando Regil, left, Hector Rolando Toj, center, and Domingo Choj, right, upon their arrival at an air force base in Guatemala City, Saturday, March 7, 2009.

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A federal policeman stands guard during an operation at a night club in downtown Ciudad Juarez March 7, 2009. Mexico's bloodiest drug war city is Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, where the Mexican government this week sent hundreds of heavily armed federal forces to take over anti-drug efforts from police tainted by corruption and links to drug traffickers. Picture taken March 7.

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A federal policeman searches a man for weapons and drugs during an operation at a night club in downtown Ciudad Juarez March 7, 2009.

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A federal policeman searches a man for weapons and drugs at a night club in downtown Ciudad Juarez March 7, 2009.

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A federal policeman searches a man for weapons and drugs at a checkpoint in the border city of Ciudad Juarez March 7, 2009.

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A Mexican soldier searches two men for drugs and weapons in a bar during an operation in CIudad Juarez, Mexico, late Saturday, March 7, 2009.

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Federal police arrive at a prison, where a riot is going on, in Cancun in Mexico's state of Quintana Roo March 7, 2009. Some 22 inmates were injured during the riot, police said.

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Federal police rounds up inmates during a riot at a prison in Cancun in Mexico's state of Quintana Roo March 7, 2009. Some 22 inmates were injured during the riot, police said.

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Canadian soldiers carry the coffin of their compatriot Trooper Marc Diab of The Royal Canadian Dragoons in the airfield of the Canadian Joint Task Force Afghanistan in Kandahar March 9, 2009. Diab was killed near Kandahar March 8, 2009, and four other soldiers were injured when an improvised explosive device detonated near an armoured vehicle during a patrol northeast of Kandahar, the Canadian government said.

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Army soldiers stand by inside the Bangladesh Border Guards headquarters in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, March 9, 2009. Bangladesh blocked access to the video-sharing site YouTube after it hosted a recording of a tense meeting between the prime minister and army officials following a bloody mutiny by border guards, officials said Monday. The insurrection last month claimed 70 lives, shook the two-month-old government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and raised tensions with the powerful military, which opposed her handling of the incident.

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Soldiers and residents get off a ship at a port of the Yeonpyeong Island near the western maritime border between the two Koreas, about 170 km (105 miles) west of Incheon International Airport, March 9, 2009. U.S. and South Korean troops began annual military drills on Monday and North Korea said it had put its armed forces on full combat readiness in response to the exercises, heightening tensions on the Korean peninsula

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A Pakistan Navy helicopter flies in front of ships during a national exercise called "Aman09" in the Arabian Sea near Karachi March 9, 2009. Naval forces from nine countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, China and Pakistan, began exercises off Pakistan on Monday, a Pakistani navy official said.

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A Pakistan Navy commando descends from a helicopter during a national exercise called "Aman09" in the Arabian Sea near Karachi March 9, 2009. Naval forces from nine countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, China and Pakistan, began exercises off Pakistan on Monday, a Pakistani navy official said.

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Pakistan Navy personnel take part in a national exercise called "Aman09" in the Arabian Sea near Karachi March 9, 2009

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A Pakistan Navy soldier operates an anti-aircraft weapon during a national exercise called "Aman09" in the Arabian Sea near Karachi March 9, 2009.

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STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (March 6, 2009) Students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and students from the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School conduct a joint assault on a simulated narcotics camp during a field training exercise. The mission of Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School is to provide partner nation security forces with the highest level of riverine and littoral craft operations and maintenance technical training, while Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation focuses on providing professional education and training to eligible persons of the nations of the Western Hemisphere within the context of the democratic principles set forth in the Charter of the Organization of American States. (U.S. Navy photos by Francisco Melara/Released)

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STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (March 5, 2009) Able Seaman Edmund McCollin, from Barbados, mans an M240B .762 mm machine gun during a Patrol Craft Officer Course at Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School at Stennis Space Center, Miss. Officer course students participated in a field training exercise with students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.(U.S. Navy photos by Mass Communication specialist RJ Stratchko/Released)

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ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (March 6, 2009) Capt. Johngie Tison, commanding officer of 3rd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Detachment, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, Armed Forces of the Philippines, and Lt. James Vandevoort, assigned to Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines, destroy ordnance near Zamboanga City. At the request of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, American EOD personnel, assigned to Joint Special Operations Task Force - Philippines (JSOTF-P) provide indirect support to Philippine EOD organizations in rendering such ordnance safe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Burden/Released)

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ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (March 6, 2009) A fireball erupts from a blast site as a cache of live ordnance is detonated by Philippine Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel near Zamboanga City, Philippines. At the request of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, American EOD personnel, assigned to Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSOTF-P) provide indirect support to Philippine EOD organizations in rendering such ordnance safe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Burden/Released)

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STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (March 6, 2009) A guest instructor debriefs students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School after a field training exercise. The mission of Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School is to provide partner nation security forces with the highest level of riverine and littoral craft operations and maintenance technical training, while Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation focuses on providing professional education and training to eligible persons of the nations of the Western Hemisphere within the context of the democratic principles set forth in the Charter of the Organization of American States. (U.S. Navy photos by Mass Communication specialist RJ Stratchko/Released)

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