Close-up Military Photos: A Week Inside the Armed Forces, July 30 – Aug. 5 Aug. 07, 2012 prev4 of 11next Narciso Contreras / POLARISMembers of a rebel faction of the Free Syrian Army, at Ibeen town in Syria, hold a machine gun inside a security house as they show the weaponry they have to protect what they call their "liberated territory" on July 30, 2012. Share Read Later TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines from around the world, and the home front.