A nine year old child dressed as a Hamas fighter child at a pro Hamas rally in Gaza.

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~ Bertrand Russell

A child soldier of the Cobra faction in South Sudan

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Wounded Free Syrian Army fighter on the border with Syria and Jordan.

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US Medics treat multiple wounded from a fire fight with Taliban insurgents on board a Blackhawk medevac helicopter of Blue Max Company Jalalabad Afghanistan.

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A woman on her way to work passes an optimistic Mural on "The Wall" constructed to keep Israelis and Palestinians apart. Jerusalem.

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A US attack helicopter of Blue Max Compnay while escorting a medvac mission fires counter measures as its on board computers pick up a threat from the ground . Jalalabad Afghanistan.

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Wounded Afghan baby girl in a U.S. field hospital Afghanistan (She did not survive) Taliban grenade attack.

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Sebastian Rich (Embeded with the USMC 2/8) photographing an Iraqi POW in the first days of the coalition invasion of Iraq 2003.

U.S. doctors and medics at the US base in Bagram Afghanistan treat a badly wounded US service man for multiple wounds from an improvised explosive device laid by Taliban insurgents.

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The bottom half of a dead Iraqi soldier slips out of its resting place in a temporary morgue after the hospital came under intense shelling by US forces. Iraq 2003

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During the long civil war in Ethiopia many an atrocity was committed by both sides.This ammunition box contains the remains of government soldiers. They have been summarily executed as the single bullet hole to the front of the skulls will testify.

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Fighters from one of Somalia's warring factions hired to protect the photographer working on the streets of Mogadishu.

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Body bags containing the remains of U.S. servicemen- Jalalabad,Afghanistan.

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A fighter of the Fararbundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) trains her comrades in the use of American automatic firearms in a jungle clearing during the civil war in El Salvador 1982. The FMLN won El Salvador's general election in March 2009.

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Child soldier Mogadishu Somalia. 

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U.S. Marine is greeted by cheerful crowd on the day that the ground war officially ended. Baghdad 2003. Little did we know what was to come.

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Iraqi prisoner of war seated and hooded,captured by the United States Marine Corps in the first days of the ground war in Iraq. The first prisoners of war had discarded their military uniforms as they thought that they would be shot on sight when they surrendered to coalition forces. Many high-ranking Iraqi officers changed clothes with lower ranks or civilians to avoid any interrogation. El Nasiriyah. Iraq 2003 ~ Copyright Sebastian Rich/All rights reserved

Gaza

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough ~ Photographer ~ Robert Capa

Afghan National Army regular pepares to go on a joint patrol with US Marines in Central Marja Helmand Province Afghanistan ~ Photographer Sebastian Rich All Rights reserved

A terrified young man committed to a mental institution in central Bosnia is abandoned by the nursing staff. The staff fled when the asylum came under intense Serbian shelling. With every shell that hit the building, his sense of intense bewilderment and fear is heightened. The inmates were left to fend for themselves without food or clothing or any means of sanitation, for a week. The combination of teeth- juddering exploding shells, high-pitched screams and the stench of defecation, urination, and fear induced vomit from the inmates was one of the more upsetting situations that I have been in. If one is familiar with the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch’s work and his interpretation of hell, you are not far off the mark.

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Young boys in a mental asylum during heavey shelling. The staff fled when the asylum came under intense Serbian shelling. With every shell that hit the building, his sense of intense bewilderment and fear is heightened. The inmates were left to fend for themselves without food or clothing or any means of sanitation, for a week. The combination of teeth- juddering exploding shells, high-pitched screams and the stench of defecation, urination, and fear induced vomit from the inmates was one of the more upsetting situations that I have been in. If one is familiar with the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch’s work and his interpretation of hell, you are not far off the mark. 

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U.S Marine leaving no doubt about his thoughts of the Taliban(on his glove).

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Wounded Muslim refugee awaiting medical treatment in an orthodox church during the civil war.  Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

Deformed Bosnian baby boy left alone in an orphanage during fierce shelling by Serbian forces Bosnia 1993.The staff fled when the asylum came under intense Serbian shelling. With every shell that hit the building, his sense of intense bewilderment and fear is heightened. The inmates were left to fend for themselves without food or clothing or any means of sanitation, for a week. The combination of teeth- juddering exploding shells, high-pitched screams and the stench of defecation, urination, and fear induced vomit from the inmates was one of the more upsetting situations that I have been in. If one is familiar with the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch’s work and his interpretation of hell, you are not far off the mark.

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The remains of a U.S. serviceman at Bagram Airfield-Afghanistan.

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Two US Medics of Blue Max Company treat a girl child on board a Blackhawk medevac helicopter for shrapnel wounds to the arms and legs from a landmine explosion. Jalalabad Area Afghanistan. 

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U.S. Marine of 1/8 Company Helmand Province Afghanistan.

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House to house fighting. Kabul Afghanistan. Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

" We photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted ~  We betray secrets that were never entrusted to us, we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business ~ And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods "  ~ Brassai

British Soldier sitting on top of his  tank looks at the effects of ethnic cleansing, Bosnia.1993.

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U.S. Marine stands in front of giant poster of Saddam Hussein,Iraq Invasion 2003

A priest stands in the hatchway of a British United Nations Warrior tank and tries to negotiate a fragile cease-fire between two local militias in the war that consumed former Yugoslavia. Seconds after I took this picture the priest left and fighting resumed with greater ferocity.

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Afghan army attacking a Taliban strong hold. 

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Wounded Bosnian boy in ambulance. Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

Red Cross limb fitting centre Kabul Afghanistan.

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Iraqi prisoner of war seated and blindfolded by the United States Marine Corps in the first days of the ground war in Iraq. The first prisoners of war had discarded their military uniforms as they thought that they would be shot on sight when they surrendered to coalition forces. Many high-ranking Iraqi officers changed clothes with lower ranks or civilians to avoid any interrogation. Copyright: Sebastian Rich/All rights reserved.

British army officer peers out of a bullet proof window of his United Nations Warrior tank trapped in the middle of a fierce battle between Bosnian Serb and Croatian forces. His tank was under sustained machine gun fire and rocket propelled grenade attack from the warring factions. Bosnia 1993.

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Mother and child at a pro Hamas rally in Gaza during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. The Israeli 'Operation Protective Edge' was a military operation launched on 8 July 2014 in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. During the Operation Hamas fired rockets targeting Israeli cities and infrastructure, resulting in seven weeks of Israeli retaliation. The Israeli strikes, the Palestinian rocket attacks and the ground fighting resulted in the deaths of thousands of people. ~  Photography: Sebastian Rich/All rights reserved.

" We photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted ~ We betray secrets that were never entrusted to us, we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business ~ And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods " ~ Brassai

Taliban fighters smuggle weapons across the Afghan/Pakistan border.

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Day one of the coalition invasion of Iraq 2003 A young Iraqi boy waves slightly bewildered at the U.S. Marines as advance into Iraq on the way to Baghdad.

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A fighter of the Fararbundo Marti National Liberation Front in a secret jungle hideout.

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I shot these image of US Marines relaxing just a couple of days before suicide bombers attacked.The Beirut Barracks Bombings October 23, 1983 Lebanon occurred during the Lebanese Civil War when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force (MNF) in Lebanon—killing 299 American and French servicemen. An obscure group calling itself 'Islamic Jihad' claimed responsibility for the bombings. Suicide bombers detonated each of the truck bombs. In the attack on the building serving as a barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines .The death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers, making this incident the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since World War II's Battle of Iwo Jima, the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States military since the first day of the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II. Another 128 Americans were wounded in the blast. Thirteen later died of their injuries The explosives used were later estimated to be equivalent to as much as 9,525 kg (21,000 pounds) of TNT. 

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I shot these image of US Marines relaxing just a couple of days before suicde bombers attacked. The Beirut Barracks Bombings October 23, 1983 Lebanon occurred during the Lebanese Civil War when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force (MNF) in Lebanon—killing 299 American and French servicemen. An obscure group calling itself 'Islamic Jihad' claimed responsibility for the bombings. Suicide bombers detonated each of the truck bombs. In the attack on the building serving as a barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines .The death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers, making this incident the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since World War II's Battle of Iwo Jima, the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States military since the first day of the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II. Another 128 Americans were wounded in the blast. Thirteen later died of their injuries The explosives used were later estimated to be equivalent to as much as 9,525 kg (21,000 pounds) of TNT.

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Wounded Lebanese civilian sits in the ruins of his house destroyed by Israeli artillery. At the time of taking this photograph the wounded man said something to me that I had to have translated by my local fixer. I thought that with his pleasant demeanor and softly spoken voice he might be saying something akin to ‘please help me and my family please.’ But what he was actually saying was ‘please why don’t you just please fuck off and leave us alone please, what good can you possibly do!

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U.S. Marine gives water to hooded Iraqi prisoner of war. Invasion of Iraq 2003.

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Blood is spattered high into the ceiling of a central Bosnian farmhouse. An elderly married couple had been sprayed at point blank range with high velocity machine gun fire in a grisly execution by Bosnian Serb Forces in the Village of Uzdol, Bosnia. Their heads exploded instantly, spraying arterial blood onto the walls. The white fragments at the bottom left of the screen are the shattered remains of the old couple’s skulls. Although I was present when the bodies of the old couple were still lying in situ, the image was far too horrific for anyone to publish and also, in my mind, quite unnecessary to photograph. However as I turned and was about to leave with the British United Nations soldiers who had the awful task of clearing up this ungodly horror, one of the young soldiers carrying the remains looked back at the wall and said ‘fuck me mate just look at all that fucking Claret up the bleeding wall’ (claret being slang for blood). For some reason I had been so preoccupied and consumed with the dilemma of how I could shoot this image in a presentable way I had failed to see the horrific message so graphically painted by a Kalashnikov hand on the wall. It struck me that this image was so much more powerful without the couple’s bodies and perfectly acceptable for any publication. Your imagination runs away with you at the thought of what went before! This is a lesson to any budding so-called war photographer that you don’t have to stick your lens and nose into the gore to get a truly shocking picture of war.

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Female door gunner of an Osprey vertical take off aircraft looks for Taliban insurgents as they come into land at camp Leather Neck Helmand Province Afghanistan.
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Young Bosnian girl grieving the loss of her soldier husband. She clutches his rifle while being comforted by her sister. 
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