A Kuwait Special Forces policeman soon aftera gun battle in Kuwait City on Sunday, Jan 30, 2005. Security forces stormed a building in a residential neighborhood Sunday and exchanged gunfire with suspected terrorists, killing three in a battle that also left a security officer and a Bahraini bystander dead, state television reported. The clash was the third battle this month between security forces and suspected militants. Kuwait, a major ally of the United States, has been battling some fundamentalists who oppose the presence of the American military in their country.
30 January 2005

Iraqi Army forces deploy armoured vehicles as the step up security in Baghdad prior to Sunday's national election January 29, 2005. Insurgents bent on wrecking the January 30 election in Iraq killed 10 Iraqis and five U.S. troops even as the government imposed extraordinary security restrictions to try to safeguard the polls. An extended curfew was imposed in most cities from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.
29 January 2005

Pakistani army officers keep watch outside the country's biggest gas plant at Sui in southwest Baluchistan province. Pakistan is to take the most drastic step yet in its bid to crush a deadly tribal rebellion, forcibly evicting all residents within 15 kilometers (10 miles) of the country's biggest gas field.(
28 January 2005

An Indonesian Marine K-61 tracked-armored vehicle carrying food aid lands in the tsunami-ravaged town of Calang, Aceh province, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2005. Earthquake and massive tsunami hit the region on Dec. 26, killing more than 100,000 people.
26 January 2005

Indian soldiers stand beside the Agni missile as they take part in an Army Day parade in New Delhi January 15, 2005. India on Saturday celebrated the 57th anniversary of the formation of its national army with soldiers from various regiments and artillery on display.
15 January 2005

A Mexican soldier stands guard with armored vehicles outside at the La Palma maximum-security federal prison in Almoloya, west of Mexico City, which houses Mexico's most dangerous drugs smugglers and kidnappers, January 14, 2005. The army has been called in to guard Mexico's maximum security prison after three narcotics smugglers were murdered over the last 6 months during a turf war between rival cartels. Two of the three murders involved firearms smuggled into the facility, leading to the arrest of a former warden at the jail along with several guards.
14 January 2005

Standing behind a 7.62 mm machine gun, Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian gives a thumb from the top of a new Taiwanese-made Light Armored Vehicle at a military-run factory in the central county of Nantou, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005. The vehicle, code-named Cloud Leopard, carries eight people and was developed to grapple with Taiwan's topography and upgrade the military's combat capabilities.
11 January 2005

A U.N. armored vehicle drives past burning barricades set up by demonstrators in the Congolese capital Kinshasa, January 10, 2005. Congolese police fired tear gas and shot into the air on Monday to stop thousands of protesters rallying in the capital Kinshasa to vent anger at the prospect of a delay in elections due to be held by the end of June.
10 January 2005

Units of the new Iraqi army roll past Iraqi Interim Premier Iyad Allawi (on podium at left) and other dignitaries during a military parade at the Taji base, north of Baghdad. Allawi extended emergency laws aimed at thwarting violence ahead of January 30 elections as the US military said a bomb killed seven soldiers in an armoured vehicle in Baghdad
07 January 2005