raqis dig graves to bury the victims of a suicide bomb attack in the Sunni Arab village of Bu Mohammed in the restive Diyala province north of Baghdad on April 17, 2008. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of mourners in Bu Mohammed, killing at least 51 people in one of the biggest insurgent attacks in violence-wracked Iraq this year.


1 month ago: A relative mourns over the body of an Awakening Council member at a hospital in Baqouba, who was killed when gunmen attacked a checkpoint in a village outside Baqouba, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008. Three council members were killed and four were wounded in the attack. Awakening Councils are made of former Sunni militants who turned against al-Qaida and sided with the Americans.
US soldiers from 2nd Battalion 23rd Infantry Regiment, speak with an Iraqi farmer during a patrol in the restive Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad on March 9, 2008. Four people were killed and several others wounded in separate attacks in Iraq today, Iraqi security officials said
a member of the self proclaimed 'Army of National Liberation' poses with his comrades at a street in Baghdad's central Fadel area, 18 December 2007
4 months ago: An Iraqi youth grieves as he sits next to the bodies of people killed in a home targeted on September 19 2008 in a pre-dawn strike by the US air force in the northern Iraqi village of al-Dawr, near the city of Tikrit some 180 kms from Baghdad. The air strike killed eight family members, three of them women
Abula, village mayor, inspects a new canal

Iraqi farmers stand outside a rural school while it's inspected by a U.S. Army Civil Affairs team for possible reconstruction funds (near Baghdad, April 2005).

militant youth in Iraq's northern mountains.
raqi farmers look on as US Marines from the 3rd Batallion, 4th Regiment patrol the main road used by coalition forces on their way to Baghdad.
Kurdish women from the village of Sina make fresh bread in Kurdish-ruled northern Iraq
Two Iraqi children ride a camel during a sandstorm south of KarbalaTwo Iraqi children ride a camel during a sandstorm south of Karbala