TIKRIT, IRAQ-NOVEMBER 27, 2003:Laith Klabos, 22, throws flour in the air on the ruins of his home in Boasil village, across the Tigris from Tikrit. The house was demolished by American soldiers on the 19th of November.

BAGHDAD,IRAQ- APRIL 09,2003: A U.S. marine helps to tear down the statue of Saddam in the 14th of Ramadan square in downtown Baghdad.

BAGHDAD,IRAQ-MARCH 23, 2003: The ruins of a house destroyed in a U.S. led rocket attack in the north of Baghdad.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ- MARCH 28, 2003: A woman crying over the body of her dead child in Musa Al-Kadym Mosque in the west of Baghdad. The child died as a result of a rocket blast in Al-Nasr market in Al-Shoala district on the western outskirts of Baghdad.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ- MARCH 28, 203: An Iraqi tribal chief arrives at a meeting in Baghdad at which scores of traditional leaders from all over Iraq were given instructions on waging guerrilla warfare against invading coalition forces

TIKRIT, IRAQ-JULY 24, 2003: Soldiers from the 22nd infantry batallion conduct a search of the car with the dead Fedays on a night patrool in downtown Tikrit Iraq, Tikrit, soldiers standing near corpses

BAGHDAD, IRAQ-OCTOBER 10, 2004: US soldiers from the 2-12 Cavalry Regiment and 1plt, A Company 1-5 Cav Regiment attached to 2-12 Cav Reg conduct a search and detain male Iraqis during early morning raid in Abu Ghraib

BAGHDAD, IRAQ-OCTOBER 10, 2004: US soldiers from the 2-12 Cavalry Regiment and 1plt, A Company 1-5 Cav Regiment attached to 2-12 Cav Reg conduct a search and detain male Iraqis during early morning raid in Abu Ghraib area of Baghdad

BAGHDAD, IRAQ-MARCH31, 2003: A Sheikh Maaruf cemetery worker carrying a reusable casket to the storage house after the funeral of Nidal Ali Jasem, 41, a lonely deaf and dumb woman killed in a rocket blast in the south of Baghdad.

TIKRIT, IRAQ-AUGUST 02 , 2003: Citizens of Owja and Tikrit gather at the cemetery outside Saddam's ancestral village to bury the bodies of Uday, Qusay and Qusay's son Mustafa.

BAGHDAD,IRAQ-DECEMBER 04, 2003:A member of one of the largest and most sophisticated resistance networks currently operating against U.S. forces in Iraq holding a modified launcher for surface-to-air missiles designed by a rogue Iraqi weapons scientist. Technicians within this network have been reconfiguring Iraqi and Soviet missiles and rockets for use against U.S. ground troops. They include in their arsenal mortars filled with what is claimed to be chemical weapons.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ-JUNE 25, 2004: Friday prayer at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad

BAGHDAD, IRAQ-JUNE 14, 2004: Iraqis pass by the burning vehicle after a bomb attack in the centre of Baghdad. A suicide car bombing in the heart of Baghdad killed at least 13 people on Monday, including five foreign contractors working for Iraq's U.S.-led authorities, whose convoy was the apparent target.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ-JULY 10, 2005: As a covert sectarian war fought with tit-for-tat assassinations and attacks by rival death squads on the side of both Sunni and Shi'ite militants, two of Iraq's latest victims lay on morgue guerneys as their relatives weep. The Shi'ite men -- Hassan ead Dawood and his 27-year-old broth Muntathar ead Dawood -- were gunned down as they stood in their mobile phone shop on a steamy July morning.

NAJAF, IRAQ-MAY 19, 2004: Armed Shiite militiamen patrol the cemetery in Najaf.

KARBALA, IRAQ-MARCH 01, 2004: Shiite Muslims beat their heads with iron chains during the Ashura festival at the Imam Hussein holy shrine in Karbala. Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims from around the world are gathering with Iraqis for the Shiite religious festival which marks the battle of year 680 A.D. in which Imam Hussein, the grandson of Islam's Prophet Mohammed, was killed. During the rule of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein , such rituals were banned in Iraq.

RAMADI, IRAQ-APRIL 29, 2006: U.S. Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, Kilo company open fire on the insurgents from the observation's posts on the roof of the main Iraqi government building complex in Ramadi, Iraq. U.S. Marines are tasked with guarding the government compound situated in the heart of a hostile urban neighborhood in downtown Ramadi, and the complex has come under frequent attacks from snipers, car bombers and insurgent fire teams.

FALLUJAH, IRAQ-NOVEMBER 09, 2004: As dawn broke on the first day of the U.S. military's massive offensive to re-take the rebel haven of Fallujah a band of soldiers from the Army Task Force 2-2's Alpha Company, 3rd Platoon, battle unrelenting insurgent attackers from a rooftop stronghold they seized in the battle's first hours. Under sniper fire and rocket-propelled grenade fire, with booby traps exploding around them as American artillery, mortars and JDAM bombs rained down on the enemy encircling them, the men, known as the Wolf Pack, unleashed every weapon they possessed. From the battle's opening moments on the night of November 8 the men, many of them teenagers, led the charge deep into the restive city well ahead of their Marine counterparts to the west. This first firefight in the dim morning light of day one was just the beginning of a week-long series of vicious engagements as the insurgents set upon them from every direction.

Qubah, Iraq, March 24, 2007 -- U.S. soldiers shield a wounded comrade from debris kicked up by a rescue helicopter descending on Qubah. Fighting between U.S. forces and insurgents erupted in the village at dawn, when U.S. troops stormed the city and began house-to-house searches for guerilla fighters. Two U.S. troops were wounded

Qubah, Iraq, March 24, 2007 -- A suspected insurgent lays dead after fighting in Qubah, a guerrilla stronghold north of Baqubah in Diyala Province. U.S. troops killed 15 other fighters in the village during an air assault that left two U.S. troops wounded.

Qubah, Iraq, March 24 -- Numbers inked with black marker show on the hand of an Iraqi woman in Qubah, a village in Diyala Province raided by U.S. forces. U.S. troops soldiers marked the hands of women and the back of the neck of men with numbers for the neighborhood and home they were from according to a grid U.S. troops drew over the village. Lt. Col. Andrew Poppas said the numbering system allowed U.S. troops to tell whether anyone was moving about the village despite a lockdown following a U.S. attack against insurgents who'd settled there.

FALLUJAH, IRAQ-OCTOBER 31, 2005: Marines of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines on night patrol in Fallujah.

RAWAH, IRAQ- NOVEMBER 13, 2006: US Marines from 2nd Battalion 8th Marines in Rawah huddle around a fire for warmth against the winter coldness of western Iraq

ZURAH, IRAQ-MARCH15, 2007: U.S. soldiers fan out across an open field near Baquba, searching for a sniper who fired one shot in their direction. Moments before coming under attack, the soldiers discovered a Kalashnikov, a Koran and the makings of a roadside bomb in a hiding place in the same area where U.S. forces killed one suspected insurgent.

FALLUJAH, IRAQ-APRIL 30, 2003:Iraqi mourners cover a grave following a funeral in Fallujah. American soldiers opened fire on a crowd of protesters, killing the man. U.S. troops opened fire on anti-American demonstrators for the second time this week as Iraqis marched Wednesday to protest the previous shooting. The mayor said two people were killed, and a hospital administrator said 18 were wounded.