Marine Lance Cpl Keith Bridges, 29, of Springfield, MO, and 2d Light Armored Reconnaissance drags aways a detainee who refused to cooperate, May 18, 2005, during an early morning raid in a remote village near Akashatt, Iraq.
US Army Sgt First Class Felipe Azua, of Plainview, TX and the 478th Civil Affairs Battalion attached to the 1st Cavalry Division, distributes humanitarian relief rations August 24, 2004, to residents on the outskirts of Baghdad's Sadr City in Iraq.
US Army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, take cover while incoming mortars hit and outgoing rockets are fired, December 11, 2004, during a battle in Mosul, Iraq.
Although wounded, Staff Sgt. Shannon Kay, of 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, fires on an enemy position after being attacked with a car bomb, December 11, 2004, in Mosul, Iraq.
The bodies of three members of the Iraqi National Guard, believed murdered by insurgents, were discovered Thursday, December 2, 2004 in Mosul, Iraq.
A child cries while left alone May 2, 2005, in a remote village in north-central Iraq.
Marines with 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company of 1st Battalion/5th Marine Regiment, destroy weapons found in three caches April 15, 2004 in Fallujah, Iraq. The weapons, which included rockets and mortars, were destroyed using C-4 explosive material which also destroyed the building where they were collected.
Iraqi men grieve as the body of a relative is pulled from a vehicle, December 5, 2004, after being shot and killed by an insurgent sniper in Mosul, Iraq. Although details of the event were unclear, insurgents have regularly targeted Mosul citizens in a recent wave of violence.
A Marine is assisted to an ambulance after sustaining injuries in an attack, April 13, 2004, outside of Fallujah, Iraq.
US Army soldiers from F Troop, 4th US Cavalry, the brigade reconnaissance troop for the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division take rest, June 17, 2004 during a gun battle that lasted about 12 hours in an area south of Baqubah, Iraq. US commanders reported 13 insurgents confirmed killed and no US casualties.
Plane on final approach into Kabul, Afghanistan.
Tribal elder, Nagaland, India.
Kashmir
A child yawns while trying to say morning prayers at a miltary style school in a Hindu pundit settlement in Jammu. Years of militant Muslim action in Kashmir have forced nearly all Hindus to leave the Kashmir region.
Rajasthan, India.
Sikh food service just outside the walls of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Even after Hindu rioters threatened to burn his home, Ejaz Ajmeri, 11 continues to make Hindu prayer cloths which are offered, along with cocunuts, to the goddess Durja. "A Muslim makes this and it goes to a Hindu goddess, we want to live with peace and love," said his mother Sarifa Ajmeri.
Suicide squad training camp east of Bombay. Instructors demonstrate attack tactics.
A stunned Shajahan Sheikh, 18, listens as her mother asks "Who will take her now?" referring to the scars she wears across her face after she was burned during the 2002 riots in Ahmedabad. She recovers from the riots in a Muslim resettlement area, known as Faizal Row House, outside of Ahmedabad.
A man washes himself in the waters that surround the sacred site of The Golden Temple (right) located in Indian's northern region of Amritsar. Although not mandatory, the action of washing oneself is common practice while visiting the site.
