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  • Iraq: Ash Shura: April 24, 2010: A soldier with Alpha Company of the First Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, Second Brigade, Third Infantry Division, was photographed during a night mission where members of the unit set up an over-watch position while on the look-out for insurgent IED (improvised explosive device) placers.
  • Lebanon: Beirut: July 20, 2006: A Lebanese man moves through rubble in the Bir al-Abed district that was destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut, during a tour organized by the information office of Hezbollah.
  • An Iraqi Shiite man talks to another through a hole in a cloth screen outside a mosque in Sadr City, a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad, during Friday prayers Feb. 11, 2005. Holes are cut into the cloth screen in order for the wind to pass freely.
  • Three dead men lie in the street at dawn in Dobsonville, Soweto, where they were gunned down during a battle between Inkatha and the ANC in Soweto's Dobsonville suburb. 1992.
  • ANC Self Defence Unit members carry a wounded comrade, Bafana Baloyi, spouting blood from a bullet wound in his side during an attack on the Inkatha dominated Mshay'zafe Hostel, Thokoza. April 19 1994.
  • Iraq: Najaf: August 22, 2004: A militiaman loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr fires towards US positions in the western border of the old city in Najaf. Miliamen engaged US forces with mortar, rpg and small arms in the western edges of the old city in Najaf.
  • Lebanon: Jieh: July 22, 2006: A deserted holiday resort near a burning fuel depot outside an electrical power plant in the town of Jieh, south of Beirut, after it was attacked twice by Israeli air strikes since the start of hostilities.
  • Iraq: Kurmashia Marsh: February 18, 2004: A Marsh Arab poles his canoe through Kirmashiya Marsh in southern Iraq.
  • Iraq, 2004.
  • Iraq: Baghdad: August 16, 2004: A militiaman loyal to Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr raises his weapon while standing on top on a burning US Army tank after the tank was destroyed during clashes between the Madhi Army and US Forces in Sadr City.
  • Iraqis bathe in the Tigris River in Baghdad, 2004.
  • Iraq: Karmah: October 31, 2006: Sgt Jesse E. Leach drags Lance CPL Juan Valdez of the 4th mobile assault platoon Weapons company 2nd battalion 8th Marines to safety moments after he was shot by a sniper during a joined patrol with the Iraqi Army in Karmah, Anbar Province, Iraq. Valdez was shot through the arm and the right side but survived.
  • Iraq: Karmah: October 31, 2006: Sgt Jesse E. Leach assists Lance CPL Juan Valdez of the 4th mobile assault platoon Weapons company 2nd battalion 8th Marines after he was shot by a sniper during a joined patrol with the Iraqi Army in Karmah, Anbar Province, Iraq. Valdez was shot through the arm and the right side but survived. To the right is Gunnery sgt Roger J Sands...
  • Tora Bora, Afghanistan, Dec. 12, 2001: An Eastern Alliance warrior watched as an American B-52 bomber circled above the Tora Bora mountains.
  • Iraq: Baghdad: March 4, 2010: Iraqi soldiers lined up on Thursday in Baghdad to cast their ballots ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections.
  • Iraq: Najaf: March 3, 2004: Ali Hadi, a professional body washer, prepared the body of a bombing victim for proper Muslim burial in Najaf while the man's relatives watched.
  • Iraq: Najaf: August 22, 2004: A sniper loyal to Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr aimed at American positions yesterday in the cemetery in Najaf.
  • Malawi: Blantyre: June 29, 2005: At a prison in Malawi, inmates sleep on the floor, so tightly packed that they turn only when a designated prisoner wakes them to do so en masse.
  • Afghanistan, Kandahar province, Arghandab district, checkpoint 16, 23rd Oct 2010. Taskforce 1-66 (66th Armoured Regiment), 4th Infantry Div. Private First Class Edwin Laplaunt carries a doll's foot for good luck that was given to him by a friend who survived a tour of duty in Iraq and claimed this was due to the lucky foot. Charlie company on patrol from Combat Outpost Brunkhorst to COP Caron, stop at Checkpoint 16 where the squad had discovered a IED the day before and wanted to recheck the area, a crossroads that is a hotspot for IED's and landmines. Soldiers: security Sgt Anton Waterman (who says Joao was right behind him when he stepped on the mine), minesweeper is PFC Edwin Laplaunt 19 years old: "either we stepped on it or around it." Dog handler Sgt Brian Maxwell, 28. Joao Silva lost both legs below the knees in the incident. The small anti-personal mine that exploded was linked by a wire to a massive fertilizer (ammonia nitrate) bomb. Photo Joao Silva.
  • Iraq: Ramadi: June 30, 2006: US Marines of the 3-8 Weapons Company run through a street filled with green smoke, after searching a building in Ramadi for suspected insurgents.
  • Iraq: Zagarit: November 9, 2006: LCPL James L. Davis jr (right) of the 3rd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Fox Company 2nd Battalion 8th Marines takes a smoke break after standing guard.
  • KURMASHIA MARSH, Iraq - An Iraqi marsh Arab releases his livestock at dawn to graze in the Kurmashia marsh in southern Iraq, Feb. 18, 2004.
  • An Arab man gesticulates at discarded shells, from which explosive material is extracted to made improvised bombs.
  • Afghanistan, Kandahar province, Arghandab district, checkpoint 16, 23rd Oct 2010. Taskforce1-66 (66th Armoured Regiment), 4th Infantry Div. Charlie company on patrol from Combat Outpost Brunkhorst to COP Caron, stop at checkpoint 16 where the squad had discovered a IED the day before and wanted to receheck the area, a crossroads that is a hotspot for IED's and landmines. Soldiers: security Sgt Anton Waterman (who says Joao was right behind him when he stepped on the mine), minesweeper is PFC Edwin Laplaunt 19 trs old: "either we stepped on it or around it." Dog handler Sgt Brian Maxwell, 28. Joao Silva lost both legs below the knees in the incident. The small anti-personal mine that exploded was linked by a wire to a massive fertilizer. These were Joao's last frames after the landmine, and as the soldiers came to assist him. (ammonia nitrate) bomb. Photo Joao Silva.

 

From the Edge of History

Images from more recent assignments in Iraq, Malawi, Lebanon and Afghanistan for The New York Times and a few images of unrest in the South African townships in the 1990s.

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