UN-recognized government forces members take part in the “Operation Peace Storm” of the Libyaâs Government of National Accord (GNA) against the forces of warlord Khalifa Haftar, in Salahaddin region south of the capital Tripoli, Libya on April 18, 2020. (Photo by Amru Salahuddien/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





U.S. Army Spc. Kevin Martin, junior sniper, assigned to the 1-186th Infantry Battalion, Task Force Guardian, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, provides security for a 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (EAS) C-130J Super Hercules during unloading operations at an unidentified location in Somalia Sunday, June 28, 2020. No country has been involved in Somalia's future as much as the United States but now the Trump administration is thinking of withdrawing the several hundred U.S. military troops from the nation at what some experts call the worst possible time. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Ruano/Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa via AP Photo)





Ukrainian service members react while standing at fighting positions on the contact line with Russian-backed separatist rebels near the town of Avdiivka in Donetsk Region, Ukraine on February 13, 2021. (Photo by Oleksandr Klymenko/Reuters)





A member of the Ethiopian Defense Forces walks away from a damaged military truck abandoned on a road near the village of Ayasu Gebriel, East of the Ethiopian city of Alamata, on December 10, 2020. (Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP Photo)





Militiamen, including alleged children, of the armed group coalition Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) pose for a photograph in the village of Niakari, which marks the front line with the Central African army and its allies, north of Bangassou, on January 30, 2021. On January 3, 2021, the city of Bangassou was attacked by hundreds of CPC militiamen, causing tens of thousands of people to flee into the bush and neighboring DR Congo. Since the end of December 2020, the rebel coalition has taken control of the main roads and several of the country's major cities. (Photo by Alexis Huguet/AFP Photo)





A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter holds a a rocket-propelled grenade launcher as he takes up position in an area overlooking Baretle village (background), which is controlled by the Islamic State, in Khazir, on the edge of Mosul September 8, 2014. (Photo by Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)





Paratroopers from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division practice their landing while training before jumps with commandos from Colombia's 2nd Special Forces Battalion at the Tolemaida military base, Colombia on January 25, 2020. (Photo by Jonathan Drake/Reuters)





Soldiers assigned to A Company, 326th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 101 Airborne Division (AirAssault) detonate a explosive breeching charge during a training exercise at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, U.S., February 12, 2020. (Photo by Bryan Woolston/Reuters)





Belgian Crown Princess Elisabeth takes part in a military initiation training at Elsenborn Belgian army camp in Butgenbach, Belgium on September 10, 2020. (Photo by Bas Bogaerts/Belgian Royal Palace/Handout via Reuters)





A service member of the Ukrainian armed forces is seen at fighting positions on the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk region, Ukraine on April 10, 2021. (Photo by Oleksandr Klymenko/Reuters)





U.S. Marines fire during a Taliban ambush as they carry out an operation to clear an area in Helmand province, October 9, 2009. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





This image released by World Press Photo, Thursday April 16, 2020, by Lorenzo Tugnoli, Contrasto for The Washington Post, part of a series which won first prize in the Contemporary Issues Stories category, An Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) anti-mine team detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) found on the Ghazni-Kandahar highway in eastern Afghanistan, on 2 December 2019. IEDs are one of the leading causes of casualties among civilians and members of the ANDSF. (Photo by Lorenzo Tugnoli, Contrasto for The Washington Post, World Press Photo via AP Photo)





A U.S. soldier from the 3rd Cavalry Regiment shields himself from the rotor wash of a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter after being dropped off for a mission with the Afghan police near Jalalabad in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on December 20, 2014. (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters)





U.S. Army Spc. Dominic Deitrick, assigned to the 1-186th Infantry Battalion, Task Force Guardian, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, seen through a night-vision device, provides security for a 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (EAS) C-130J Super Hercules during unloading and loading operations Friday, June 12, 2020 at an unidentified location in Somalia. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Ruano/Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa via AP Photo)





Fighters of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) take cover during clashes with Libyan National Army (LNA) at Salah Al-Din frontline in Tripoli, Libya, April 18, 2020. Libya's UN-backed government's forces said they launched 17 airstrikes on the east-based army positions in Tarhuna, some 90 kilometers south of the capital Tripoli, seizing a number of military vehicles. Despite international call for cease-fire in Libya, the deadly armed conflict has continued with collateral civilian casualties. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)