Soldiers from a Scottish battalion have returned home after a six-month tour of Afghanistan.
Members of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland carried out patrols, operations and fought insurgents in the Lashkar Gah region of Helmand province.
Around 500 members of the battalion also helped to provide security in the area as well as training the Afghan National Security Forces.
All members of the battalion have now returned to their Penicuik-based Glencourse Barracks and are preparing for a homecoming parade before their leave.
No fusiliers were killed during their six-month tour.
Their positions have been taken over by The Highlanders 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland.
Earlier this month, members of a platoon in the Royal highland Fusiliers spoke of their narrow escape after they were caught in a firefight in an ambush. With rounds landing at their feet and zipping overhead, they ran more than 100 metres across open ground to take cover in a ditch.
Pinned down, the men had to call in artillery strikes.
They were patrolling about half a mile outside Patrol Base Bamba Serai to the north east of Lashkar Gah on March 28 when friends Lance Corporal Warren Grant and Fusilier Robert Muir, who are from Ayrshire, found themselves out in the open.
L/Cpl Grant, 20, said he had an eerie feeling and explained: "Every time it's me and him in open ground we get contacted.
"I said, 'This is a bit dodgy. We've been sitting here for five minutes and nothing has happened. It's going to kick off'.
"(Fus Muir) said, 'No chance', and then it was 'here we go again'."
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