Smoke rises from Taliban positions on a mountainside near Outpost Bari Alai in Ghaziabad district, Kunar, after a U.S. fighter aircraft dropped bombs during fighting in September 2011. Photograph by Erik de Castro/Reuters.
Afghan and Canadian soldiers board CH-147 Chinook helicopters after Operation SHER II in Panjwayi District, Afghanistan. Photograph by Capt Dan Hogan, courtesy Canadian Forces.
LA(Phot) Gaz Faulkner photographed Royal Marines and soldiers from 42 Commando crossing a river during Operation Aabi Toorah in Helmand Province.
A paratrooper of the 101st Airborne Division (Task Force Currahee, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry) provides security with an M249 squad automatic weapon during a large air-assault mission in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, November 2010. The photograph is a US Army / DVIDS release in the public domain; the soldier is identified as Pfc. Randall Kinnaman.
