Iraq


  1. IRAQ

    Locals clean the area in front of Imam Ali mosque, which contains the tomb of Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, after a suicide bomber attack, in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday Aug. 10, 2006. A suicide bomber detonated a belt of explosives on his body near a highly revered Shiite shrine in southern Iraq Thursday, killing at least 30 people and injuring 60, an official said. A picture of Imam Ali is seen at left. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

  2. IRAQ

    Iraqi Higher Education Minister Abed Theyab, talks during a news conference following kidnapping at the scientific research institute in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006. Gunmen in Iraqi police commando uniforms kidnapped up to 150 staff members from a government research institute in downtown Baghdad on Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)

  3. IRAQ

    Iraqis carry a casket of their relative in Sadr city, Baghdad's Shiite district, Saturday, May 13, 2006. The bullet-riddled bodies of four Shiites from Sadr city were found dumped near Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

  4. IRAQ

    Masked and unmasked men carrying assault rifles put up blue campaign posters for the Iraqi Accordance Front, a major Sunni Arab alliance headed by Adnan al-Dulaimi, Tariq al-Hashemi and Khalaf al-Ilyan in Ramadi, Iraq Monday, Dec. 12, 2005, ahead of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections, which will select a National Assembly that will serve for four years. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

  5. IRAQ

    Iraqi firefighters put out a blaze started when a roadside bomb exploded in the predominantly Shiite area of Kazimiyah, sparking a fire in two discount clothing stores in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, June 23, 2006. No casualties were reported. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

  6. IRAQ

    An Iraqi rides in front of a convoy of U.S. soldiers, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday Sept. 6, 2006 .Iraq's 2007 budget will increase the amount of money to be spent on the country's security, as well as giving more money to reconstruction efforts, the finance minister Bayan Jabr said Wednesday. The final amount of the budget depended on oil revenues and had not yet been determined, but added that it could reach a total of US$33 billion (Euros 25.7 billion).(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

  7. IRAQ

    Iraqi policemen question men riding donkeys, just before the prayer day vehicle ban, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday Aug. 18, 2006. The number of roadside bombs directed against U.S. and Iraqi forces increased sharply last month, U.S. officials said Aug.17, 2006. The increase dramatizes the threat posed by the Sunni-led insurgency despite attention directed to sectarian violence in the capital.(AP Photo/Khlaid Mohammed)

  8. Iraq Hezbollah In Iraq

    ** FILE ** In this June 20, 2008 file photo, a U.S. soldier holds a poster that shows the anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, left, and the leader of Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, during a search operation in Maysan province near the border with Iran, 320 kilometers, 200 miles, southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Hezbollah instructors trained Shiite militiamen at remote camps in southern Iraq until three months ago when they slipped across the border to Iran, presumably to continue instruction on Iranian soil, according to two Shiite lawmakers and a top army officer.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

  9. IRAQ ATTACK

    A man injured in a suicide attack lies inside a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. A woman wearing a vest lined with explosives blew herself up near a popular market and Shiite mosque in turbulent Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing eight civilians, the latest in a growing number of female suicide attacks. (AP Photo/Adil al-Khazali)

  10. IRAQ SECURITY

    An Iraq Army soldier keeps watch on a guard tower at combat outpost hotel in Mosul, Iraq, on the Tigress River. Illustrates IRAQ-SECURITY (category i), by Joshua Partlow (c) 2008, The Washington Post. Moved Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008. (MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Andrea Bruce.)

  11. US Iraq

    ** FILE ** In this April 9, 2008 file photo. Gen David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Associated Press has learned that Petraeus, the four-star general who has been leading troops in Iraq, has been tapped to become the next commander of U.S. Central Command. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

  12. US Iraq

    ** FILE ** In this March 3, 2008 file photo, Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno is seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Odierno, who had until recently been serving as a deputy to Gen. David Petraeus, will replace Petraeus after President Bush nominated Petraeus as the next commander of the U.S. central Command. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

  13. IRAQ PROTESTS

    An Iraqi man shouts slogans during a protest in Kufa, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, May 30, 2008. Tens of thousands of Shiites took to the streets Friday in Baghdad and other cities to protest plans for a long-term security agreement with the United States. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

  14. IRAQ SADR

    An Iraqi Army soldier injured in the fighting surrounding the wall of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, is treated by U.S. soldiers. Illustrates IRAQ-SADR-1STLD (category i), by Amit R. Paley (c) 2008, The Washington Post. Moved Tuesday, May 20, 2008. (MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Andrea Bruce.)

  15. Iraq Bombing

    Iraqi women grieve outside Kazimiyah hospital for relatives killed in a car bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The bomb ripped through a busy commercial street in a Shiite area of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 63 people and wounding scores more in the deadliest blast in the capital in more than three months. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

  16. IRAQ ATTACK

    Iraqi policemen at the hospital in Fallujah help an injured Iraqi, who was wounded in a suicide attack in Karmah town 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of Baghdad, Thursday June 26 2008. A suicide bomber struck Thursday inside a municipal building in Karmah during a meeting of tribal sheiks opposed to al-Qaida, police said./ (AP Photo).

  17. IRAQ BOMBING

    An Iraqi girl stands in front of destroyed houses after a suspected car bomb explosion, in the Ash Sha'b neighborhood of northern Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 4, 2008. The explosion occurred near the Baghdad home of an Iraqi police general, killing at least 16 people and wounding 50 others, the police said. Wednesday's suicide bombing was the deadliest such attack in Baghdad since early March. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

  18. Benning Iraq

    Pvt. Jeremy Shults and his girlfriend Tracey Peavy share a moment together before the farewell ceremony at Fort Benning, Ga. for the 988th Military Police Company deployment Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Friends and family members met with more than 200 Fort Benning soldiers as they prepared to depart for Iraq. The troops from the 233rd Transportation Company and the 988th Military Police Company left Tuesday for Iraq and will be deployed for about 12 months. (AP Photo/Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Shannon Szwarc)

  19. Mideast Iraq

    Iraqi security forces parade carrying Iraqi flags during a handover ceremony at the government headquarters in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, in Iraq Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. The U.S. military handed over control of the once brutally violent Anbar province to Iraqi forces Monday, marking a major milestone in America's plan to eventually send its troops home, but American officials warned that the struggle against insurgents was not over in the western region. (AP Photo/Wathiq Khuzaie, Pool)

  20. US Iraq

    Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, right, wait to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the security and stability in Afghanistan and Iraq. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

  21. Iraq Christmas

    U.S. Army Pfc Jon Droski of C company, 1-68 Armor, 2 BCT, 4th Infantry Division decorates a Christmas tree at combat outpost Ford in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, on Christmas morning Thursday, Dec. 25 2008. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

  22. Iraq Warrants

    1st Lt. Cameron Mays, 24, of Marion, Ky., center, with Delta Company, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment, listens to a cab driver complaining about the car ban at the market during a routine patrol in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. For nearly six years, U.S. troops been free under a U.N. mandate to search any home and detain anyone deemed a security risk. All that changes next month, when the mandate expires and a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement takes effect. From then on, troops must obtain a warrant for searches and arrests. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

  23. IRAQ BRITAIN

    Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, shakes hands with a British soldier on arrival in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. Gordon Brown flew into Baghdad to discuss plans for the final draw down of British troops in Iraq from early next year. (AP Photo/Peter Macdiarmid/PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE **

  24. Iraq Security

    Iraqi army soldiers check an Iraqi car at a check point in the Abu Dshir district of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)

  25. Iraq Bombing

    Iraqi schoolgirls walk past wreckage after a car bomb exploded near the Baidha secondary school in the Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Shaab in north Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesady, Nov. 12, 2008. There are conflicting casualty reports from that attack, one in a series of blasts that struck Baghdad for the third consecutive day, killing nine people and wounding more than 30 others Wednesday, police said. The attacks underlined the fragility of recent security gains in the Iraqi capital.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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