Pictures from the WOT

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Photos from any theatre where nations are engaged in conflict with islamist or other terrorists are welcome here!be it Pakistan, Afghanistan, israel, Colombia or even the phillipenes.

 

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I'll start of with the conflict in Pakistan

Sindh Rangers patrol the streets of Karachi

 

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General Sir David Richard, Chief of General Staff, UK along with Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani presenting salute after laying floral wreath at Yadgar-e-Shuhada during his visit to General Headquarters on Monday. (2-11-2009) – Photo ISPR.

A police commando kicks a displaced boy, who fled from South Waziristan due to military offensive.

 

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An onslaught of militant violence has transformed Pakistan's capital from a sleepy oasis to something of a city under siege, with its tree-lined streets barricaded, schools shuttered and jittery residents wondering when the next attack will come.–AP Photos

 

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Izatullah, 7, fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan, looks through the broken window of a vehicle while waiting for his father at a distribution point for internally displaced persons.

 

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afghanistan

HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Nov. 1, 2009) Hospital Corpsmen assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment tend to an injured boy at forward operating base Golestan in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. The boy fell from an unknown height and was in critical condition. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Chad J. Pulliam/Released)

Afghan National policemen look on as U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division teach a police training course at an outpost in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Salinas was preparing to demonstrate how to disarm an aggressor from a position of weakness.

 

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Staff Sgt. Stephen Skiano, a San Diego, Calif., native deployed with the 33rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron here, gazes out on the Afghanistan terrain while heading out on a mission. Sgt. Skiano is a Pararescue Jumper and is deployed from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. PJs are highly trained combat seach and rescuemen; they go through 66 weeks of specialized training to become qualified for their job.

Staff Sgt. Justin Schramm, an aerial gunner on an HH-60G Pave Hawk scans the countryside while on a mission here. The Pave Hawks are used for Combat Search and Rescue, and have been operated by the U.S. Air Force since 1991. Sgt. Schramm is from Eugene, Ore., and is currently stationed at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Here Schramm is working in the 33rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron

 

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Army Pvt. John Macintosh, a native of Canada's Halifax, Nova Scotia, provides security for fellow 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, Soldiers, during a patrol in Kunar province, Afghanistan's Waterpur Valley, Nov. 3. Thousands of foreign-born citizens, like Macintosh, serve in the U.S. armed services, and have deployed in support on ongoing American military operations.
(Photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller : Combined Joint Task Force - 82 PAO)

Army Pvt. John Stafinski, a native of Seville, Ohio, and fellow Soldiers with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, patrol the Waterpur Valley, in Afghanistan's Kunar province, Nov. 3. The Fort Carson, Colo., based 4th Infantry Division Soldiers have been providing security and humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people since arriving in June.
(Photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller : Combined Joint Task Force - 82 PAO)