Members of the federal police on an environmental protection mission in the Sierra Chincua monarch butterfly reserve where they monitor illegal logging and break-ins in the park.

Afghan military soldiers train at the Afghan National Army (ANA) Academy in Kabul.

Afghan military soldiers train at the Afghan National Army (ANA) Academy in Kabul.

Afghan military soldiers train at the Afghan National Army (ANA) Academy in Kabul.

Afghan military officers parade at their graduation ceremony at the Afghan National Army (ANA) Academy.

An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier walks though the Darul Aman Palace. The palace, originally built in the 1920s, has been damaged on many occasions during years of unrest and war in Afghanistan. T...

A woman and her baby look on as a US marine checks a compound as he participates in a security patrol.

A woman and her baby look on as a US marine checks a compound as he participates in a security patrol.

A US Marine gives a bar of chocolate to a boy during a security patrol.

A US marine waves at a child sleeping in a cot in the courtyard of a house where they are conducting a security patrol.

US marines stand beside a child sleeping in a cot in the courtyard of a house where they are conducting a security patrol.

A US marine points his rifle a the window of a house while conducting a security patrol.

A US military base at Kandahar International Airport.

A US Marine stands guard while a group of children look on from the doorway of a house.

US marines talk with an elderly man as they conduct a security patrol.

US Marines conduct a patrol along the edge of a field of maize crops.

A US Marine conducts a patrol through a field of crops.

A US Marine rests in his barracks at Camp Leatherneck.

US Marines conduct a patrol as a farmer tends to his crops.

A group of US Marines on patrol walk through a ploughed field.

A US Marine conducts a patrol, with several young boys and their donkeys following.

U.S. Marines conduct a security patrol in Garmsir.

A young man on a donkey laughs as he talks with US marines who are conducting a security patrol.

US marines travel in vehicles on a security patrol.

US marines read magazines while on a break from a patrol.

US marines read magazines while on a break from a patrol.

People gether around the wreckage of a car used in a suicide car bomb attack which struck a heavily guarded neighbourhood near the home of a former Afghan vice president and a hotel favoured by wester...

A US Marine commander talks to Afghan locals at the Safar Bazaar.

Shopkeepers hold a shura (meeting), guarded by US marines and the ANA (Afghan National Army), to discuss the reopening of Safar bazaar. The bazaar had been closed because of IEDs (improvised explosive...

US marines walk towards a helicopter to begin a patrol.

US marines walk towards a helicopter to begin a patrol.

US marines and ANA (Afghan National Army) soldiers prepare to leave the base for a joint patrol as behind them a helicopter prepares to land. On many patrols, the two military forces work together.

US marines walk towards a helicopter to begin a patrol.

A group of US Marines play a card game at Camp Leatherneck.

US Marines patrol the Safaar bazaar after IEDs were reported to have been planted in the area.

US Marines patrol the Safaar bazaar after IEDs were reported to have been planted in the area.

US marines take cover as they fire a mortar from Safar military base.

US marines take a rest during a patrol in Safar.

US marines take a rest during a patrol in Safar.

A member of a US marine patrol takes a picture of his sleeping comrades as they take a rest during a patrol in Safar.

US marines take a rest during a patrol in Safar.

A US marine reads a book as he takes a rest after a patrol.

Two US Marines guard an intersection in Helmand Province.

A US Marine rests in the Safar Bazaar.

A shopkeeper sits outside a shop where a US Marine is standing guard. The bazaar had been damaged due to fighting between US forces and the Taliban.

An ANA (Afghan National Army) soldier holds an RPG7 as he participates in a security patrol in Safar.

Shopkeepers hold a shura (meeting), guarded by US marines and the ANA (Afghan National Army), to discuss the reopening of Safar bazaar. The bazaar had been closed because of IEDs (improvised explosive...

A US Marine looks at smoke rising from a controlled detonation of an IED discovered by US Marines on patrol in the Safar Bazar.

A US Marine and his dog takes a break from a security patrol in Safar.

US Marines on patrol through the Safar Bazaar where improvised explosive devices were reported to have been planted by the Taliban.

US Marines on patrol through the Safar Bazaar where improvised explosive devices were reported to have been planted by the Taliban.

A US Marine checks for IEDs during a patrol through the Safar Bazaar, after improvised explosive devices were reported to have been planted there by the Taliban.

A US Marine on security patrol interacts with two Afghan men.

An ANA (Afghan National Army) soldier lights a cigarette as his team take a rest at the US Marine base in Safar. On many patrols, the two military forces work together.

A US marine has a shave as an IED (improvised explosive device) is detonated in the distance as part of an IED clearing operation in the Safar area where a US marine team discovered and detroyed more...

A group of US Marines in their quarters.

A US Marine passesa boy riding a donkey while conducting a security patrol.

A US Marine passesa boy riding a donkey while conducting a security patrol.

A US marine on patrol passes a butcher's shop displaying chickens.

Two US Marines conduct a security patrol in Helmand Province.

A US marine sleeps on his bed at the base in Garmsir.

A US marine sleeps on his bed at the base in Garmsir.

A US marine sits on a camel led by a child as he participates in a security patrol.

A camel in the foreground, with a group of US Marines.

A US marine participates in a security patrol passing villagers.

A US Marine conducts a security patrol in Helmand Province.

A US Marine conducts a patrol past a flock of sheep, in Helmand Province.

A US Marine conducts a security patrol, passing through a flock of sheep, in Helmand Province.

US marines and the ANP (Afghan National Police) conduct a security patrol.

Boys and their flock of sheep are seen through the window of a US military vehicle.

A group of US Marines conducting a patrol are seen through the window of a US military vehicle.

A US Marine gives a thumbs up gesture to a man as he passes while conducting a patrol.

US marines conduct a security patrol.

Men riding motorcycles pass a group of US Marines conducting a patrol.

A US Marine conducting a patrol looks towards to men in the foreground, in Helmand Province.

A US Marine conducting a patrol looks at a man on a passing motorcycle in Helmand Province.

Two men on a motorcycle pass a US marine conducting a patrol in Helmand Province.

A soldier taking part in a US marine security patrol smiles while passing two boys playing on the ground.

A US military Bell Boeing Osprey tiltrotor aircraft takes off from Camp Leatherneck in Helmand Province.

Members of the Afghan National Army stand to attention during a ceremony to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the fall of a Soviet-installed regime. The ceremony included a parade of the Afghan mili...

Helicopters from Ahmad Shah Massoud's forces take off from open ground beside farmers plouging a field.

A French military convoy in the Sorobi region.

A defense post on the heights of the city.

Afghan forces searching for Bin Laden.

Iraqi soldiers act as pallbearers, carrying coffins during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis killed by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were...

Iraqi soldiers act as pallbearers, carrying coffins during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis killed by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were...

A soldier tries to calm a group of distraught women as the funerary procession for 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS terror passes them by. Having been exhumed from the mass graves, where they were dumped fo...

Security personnel and residents look on as the funerary procession for 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS passes them by. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped by ISIS, the victim's...

Security personnel standing in street where large crowds of people had gathered to greet Pope Francis on his visit to the mainly Christian town of Qaraqosh.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad addresses the crowd during the ceremonial re-burial of 103 Yazidi victims killed by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass grave...