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.
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.
