Syrian soldiers guard an army tank in Dahr Al-Baydar, on the main Beirut-Damascus highway linking the capital with the Bekaa valley. A UN team vowed to be impartial in probing here the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, as Lebanon waited for powerful neighbour Syria to begin a promised troop redeployment.
25 February 2005

Slovak police officers stand by an armored vehicle in Bratislava, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005 on the eve of a summit to be held at Bratisalv Castle, between U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin . In a security operation unprecedented for Slovakia, authorities have been tightening controls at key border crossings, patrolling the main airport and railway stations and virtually locking down the capital ahead of Thursday's summit
23 February 2005

Pakistani UN peacekeepers in an armored personnel carrier is posted outside the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on February 20, 2005, one day after a group of armed men led a daring assault that freed 481 of some 1,250 prisoners. Among those who escaped were two former government officials, but they turned themselves in late Saturday night.
20 February 2005

A Philippine military tank patrols in the outskirts of Jolo town, southern Philippines February 9, 2005. Philippine military planes bombed Muslim rebel positions on a remote southern island on Wednesday and troops attacked guerrilla bunkers in pitched fighting that has killed 60 people in three days, officials said.
09 February 2005

An armored EE-11 Urutu car crosses a flooded street in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005. At least 5,000 people evacuated their homes due to the flooding in the capital of Caracas and six northern states, said Col. Antonio Rivero, the country's civil protection director.
08 February 2005

A woman holds a Somali flag in front of an armoured vehicle BMP-2 Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005 in Mogadishu. Militiamen fired in the direction of the Somali parliament speaker, Shariif Hassan Sheikh Aden, as he and his delegation toured the capital's port Tuesday, highlighting the challenge his government-in-exile faces as it considers returning home. No one was hurt.
08 February 2005

An armored vehicle Piranha Mowag of the Berne police force pulls up in the neighborhood of the Spanish consulate where hostages were taken by an unknown intruder, February 7, 2005. Police cordoned off the area around the consulate, located in an upscale neighborhood near the historic center of Berne, and stationed sharpshooters around the building of the consulate.
07 February 2005

Nepali military personnel sit atop an armored vehicle as they keep watch on a street in Kathmandu, February 4, 2005. Nepal's army said on Friday it would step up its offensive against Maoist rebels fighting to overthrow the monarchy, days after the king sacked the government, arrested political leaders and seized power.
06 February 2005

Turkish riot police officer stands in front of a police armored personnel carrier as he guards the main entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara February 5, 2005, during a demonstration against the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the Turkish capital. Rice is expected to arrive in Turkey Saturday evening as part of her eight-nation tour of Europe and the Middle East.
05 February 2005

A convoy of German armoured vehicles from ISAF searching for the missing Afghan plane in Khaki Jabar, a district southeast of Kabul, where officials said the plane was last reported on Thursday afternoon, but returned to base empty-handed on Friday, Feb. 4, 2005. NATO and Afghan forces suspended their ground and air search as darkness closed in Friday for an Afghan passenger jet carrying 104 people after it disappeared from radar screens during a snowstorm near the mountain-ringed capital.
04 February 2005

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Peter Schoomaker stands next to a finished Humvee as he speaks to employees of Armour Holding's after a tour of the plant, Friday, Feb. 4, 2005, in Fairfield, Ohio.
04 February 2005

Downtown Mosul : An Iraqi boy walks beside a patrolling US military armored vehicle in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
04 February 2005