Photos: Animals caught up in human conflicts
March 18, 2013
A puppy sleeps under a U.S soldier's hat and rifles in Baquba, in Diyala province some 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad November 6, 2008. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic ( IRAQ/ )
Free Syrian Army fighters transport weapon on a donkey after clashes with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, in Harem near Idlib October 22, 2012. REUTERS/Redwan al-Homsi/Shaam News Network/Handout ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Student protesters are hit by a jet of water as they clash with riot policemen during a demonstration against the government to demand changes in the public state education system in Santiago, August 23, 2012. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is profiteering in the state education system. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado ( CHILE-STUDENTS/RALLY )
Rebel fighter patrols with a monkey at back of a truck during a visit by an American convoy from the U.S. embassy in Monrovia, which rolled into rebel territory, Monrovia, August 8, 2003. REUTERS/Juda Ngwenya ( LIB13D )
An abandoned pet tortoise walks on the debris of a damaged house in the neighborhood of old Homs September 9, 2012. REUTERS/ Yazen Homsy ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
A puppy sits between U.S. Army soldiers of 5-20 Infantry Regiment attached to 82nd Airborne Division, as they secure an area during a patrol in Zharay district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan June 12, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov ( AFGHANISTAN/ )
Shadow, an Afghan puppy owned by Canadian soldiers from the NATO-led coalition, sits in his sand-bagged kennel at Three Tank Hill base near Panjwaii town in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, October 27, 2007. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly ( AFGHANISTAN/ )
Mounted Israeli police officers try to disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews during a protest in Jaffa, just south of central Tel Aviv June 16, 2010. REUTERS/Nir Elias ( ISRAEL/ )
A U.S. marine from 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Jump Platoon walks with sniffer dog "Conn" while on patrol near a sandstorm in a desert in Helmand, Afghanistan September 13, 2010. REUTERS/Erik de Castro ( AFGHANISTAN )
A goat sits on a ledge behind Staff Sergeant James Davis from the 4th Platoon, Dagger Company of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment during a patrol near Combat Outpost Nangalam in the Pech River Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar Province July 1, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson ( AFGHANISTAN/ )
A dog jumps as riot policemen use a water cannon on student protesters during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education in Santiago January 19, 2012. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is the profiteering in the state education system. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero ( CHILE/ )
A sheep passes Senegalese troops standing in formation for the arrival of African Union United Nations mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Force Commander Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba of Rwanda at the Umm Baru team site February 22, 2012. REUTERS/UNAMID/Albert Gonzalez Farran/Handout ( SUDAN/ )
Ikar, a sniffer dog, yawns while riding with handler Vance McFarland, a Specialist of the U.S.Army 82nd Airborne Division, inside an armored vehicle outside Forward Operating Base (FOB) Pasab in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 26, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov ( AFGHANISTAN/ )
A cat stands next to a damaged telephone booth in Hamidiyeh district in the central city of Homs July 1, 2012. REUTERS/Yazen Homsy ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Striking mineworkers march outside Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa's North West Province as they await the arrival of freed colleagues, September 6 2012. South Africa's militant AMCU union refused to sign a "peace deal" with platinum company Lonmin on Thursday, undermining government-backed efforts to open pay talks and end a four-week strike scarred by deadly violence. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings ( SAFRICA-MINES )
A cat sits on the debris of a damaged house in the neighborhood of old Homs September 9, 2012. REUTERS/ Yazen Homsy ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
An Occupy Wall Street protester takes a nap next to his dog during activities organized by the movement "OWS" at Foley Square, Lower Manhattan in New York, September 16, 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz ( USA-OCCUPY/ )
Visitors look at a dog with a placard with Chinese characters reading, "Boycott Japanese products" near the September 18 Monument, on the 81st anniversary of Japan's invasion of China, in Shenyang, Liaoning province September 18, 2012. Japanese businesses shut hundreds of stores and plants and the country's embassy suspended services in China on Tuesday as anti-Japan protests reignited and risked dragging a territorial dispute between Asia's two biggest economies deeper into crisis. REUTERS/Stringer ( CHINA-JAPAN/ )
A kitten sits next to a bowl of milk in Juret al-Shayah, in Homs July 20, 2012. REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
A rabbit is pictured next to weapons in a Free Syrian Army bus in Bustan Al-Basha district in Aleppo September 18, 2012. REUTERS/Zain Karam ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
A cat nurses her kittens while lying on a Free Syrian Army jacket at a school in Bustan Al-Qasr district in Aleppo September 19, 2012. The animals are being taken care of by the army. REUTERS/Zain Karam ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Counter-protesters lock arms as police horses clear a path for members of the Aryan Nations to march across Capitol Hill to rally against what they claim is a genocide against whites in South Africa, on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, September 22, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst ( USA/ )
A dog searches for food at a destroyed house in Azaz, in northern Syria near the border with Turkey, October 8, 2012. REUTERS/Zain Karam ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
A member of Free Syrian Army pats a cat in Aleppo October 22, 2012. REUTERS/Zain Karam ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
U.S. Army soldier SPC Collin Pallesen of "Attack" Co, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment plays with an Afghanistan dog named "Tango" before heading out of Combat Outpost Kandalay to patrol in Zharay district, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan October 27, 2012. "Tango" always comes with the platoon during patrols, Pallesen said. REUTERS/Erik De Castro ( AFGHANISTAN )
A dog sleeps next to a U.S soldier at a hill top near the town of Walli Was during an operation in Paktika province, near the border with Pakistan, November 4, 2012. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic ( AFGHANISTAN/ )
An Israeli women holds her dog as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets in the southern city of Ashkelon November 16, 2012. REUTERS/Amir Cohen ( PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL/ )
An Israeli woman holds a dog as she stands near the scene where a rocket landed in Arugot, east of Ashdod November 21, 2012. REUTERS/Amir Cohen ( PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL/ )
A man gives food to cats in the al-Khalidiya neighborhood of Homs December 5, 2012. REUTERS/Yazan Homsy ( ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
People take cover from tear gas as they run away with goods they took from a supermarket in the Argentine patagonian city of San Carlos de Bariloche December 20, 2012. REUTERS/Trilcec Reyes ( ARGENTINA/ )
A Free Syrian Army fighter feeds a cat in the old city of Aleppo January 6, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Dogs stand at the burnt entrance of a building following a series of arson attacks against journalists in Athens January 11, 2013. REUTERS/John Kolesidis ( GREECE-ATTACK/ )
Rocket-propelled grenades believed to belong to Islamist rebels are stockpiled next to a donkey in a courtyard in Diabaly January 23, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney ( MALI )
A man runs with his donkey cart as protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi flee from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes along Qasr Al Nil bridge leading to Tahrir Square in Cairo January 28, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh ( EGYPT-PROTESTS/ )
Members of the Free Syrian Army play with a dog near Nairab military airport in Aleppo February 23, 2013. REUTERS/Hamid Khatib ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
A dog follows German Bundeswehr army soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) during a mission in Chahar Dara in the outskirts of Kunduz, December 17, 2009. German Bundeswehr army soldiers and Afghan National Army (ANA) units started a operation against insurgents in the area on Wednesday. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch ( AFGHANISTAN/ )
A German Bundeswehr army soldier with the Delta platoon of the 2nd paratroop company 373 strokes a dog on its head during a mission in the city of Iman Sahib, north of Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, December 6, 2010. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch ( AFGHANISTAN/ )
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