A runner approaches a kilometer marker during a 15-kilometer run through the Grand Bara Desert in Djibouti. Hosted by the French Foreign Legion, nearly 200 members of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa ran alongside 2,500 Djiboutian, Chinese, and coalition service members and civilians during the race across a stretch of Djibouti’s Grand Bara Desert, Dec. 13.

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