IRAQ. Bashur (Southern Kurdistan). Nineveh governorate. Haj Ali. November 29, 2016. Iraqi army humvees drive in the desert on their way to support their comrades, as black smoke covers the sky during their battle against ISIS, south of Mosul.

UDA (Ulster Defence Association) gunmen.

FINLAND. East Karelia. Rukajkärvi. November 1942. A Russian spy laughing through his execution. 

It has been thought within the Finnish Defence Forces that the decision to withhold pictures of the fate of Russian POWs and spies may also have been prompted by concerns that pro-Soviet elements in Finnish society could have used the images for propaganda purposes. This picture was declassified by the Ministry of Defense of Finland in the 2006, with the description: Unknown Soviet intelligence officer before being shot, Finland, 1942.

KUWAIT. Burgan oil feilds. 1991. U. S. Marines pose with a burnt-out vehicle on which they have written “Free Kuwait”.