Dead and critically injured Iraqi civilians are seen lying in the street on September 12, 2004 in Haifa Street, Baghdad, Iraq. Fighting broke out in the early hours of September 12, 2004 as explosions shook the centre of Baghdad with U.S. helicopters opening fire at targets in the area and a U.S. armored vehicle was seen on fire. Over 20 people were killed and 48 injured in a day of heavy fighting more than two months since the handover of power in Iraq.
Dead and injured Iraqi civilians are seen lying in the street on September 12, 2004 in Haifa Street, Baghdad, Iraq. Fighting broke out in the early hours of September 12, 2004 as explosions shook the centre of Baghdad with U.S. helicopters opening fire at targets in the area and a U.S. armoured vehicle was seen on fire. Over 20 people were killed and 48 injured in a day of heavy fighting more than two months since the handover of power in Iraq.
Morgue employees unload dead bodies outside the morgue of Baquba hospital 12 July 2006. The bodies of 22 people kidnapped earlier in the day at a bus station in Muqdadiyah, northeast of Baghdad, were found Wednesday in countryside near the town, the Iraqi army said.
Iraqis Bury Their Dead As Us Marines Of The 3Rd Bat/4Th Reg. Pursue Progression Into Baghdad. On April 8, 2003 In Baghdad, Iraq. On The Outskirts Of The Iraqi Capital, An Iraqi Civilian Killed April 7, At The Wheel Of His Car As He Failed To Stop On An Order From The Marines, Is Buried By The Surviving Passengers Of The Car.
Blood runs from the body of a slain Shiite woman killed during factional fighting between Fedayeen militia loyal to Saddam Hussein and Shiite gunmen in the Shiite neighborhood of Saddam City at the Chawadar Saddam Hospital April 13, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. Widespread looting has broken out all over the capital as American forces continue to set up road blocks and patrols, while the Fedayeen militia loyal to Saddam Hussein try to carry out sporadic attacks against the U.S Army and the Shiite population of Baghdad.
Iraqi soldiers carry a body of a man after he was found while on patrol with the U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Cavalry, Task Force 1-9, February 25, 2005 in the Haifa Street neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. The circumstances around the death were not known. The U.S. Army continues to train and work beside the Iraqi military as they prepare to turn over the area to them eventually.
A dead baby lies among corpses on the back of a pick-up truck outside Al-Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad on April 6, 2009. A spate of bloody car bombings in Baghdad recalled the blackest days of violence in the capital as at least 32 people were killed and nearly 130 were wounded.
Corpses lie on the ground 30 January 2007, two days after a raging battle pitted Iraqi and US troops against a group of Shiite fighters in the town of Zarqa, north of the holy city of Najaf. Iraqi government said that more than 500 Shiite fighters calling themselves as "Soldiers of Heaven" were arrested after the battle that also left nearly 300 militants dead of the fighters.
An Iraqi man reads the small identification cards attached to corpses as he searches for his relatives in a makeshift overflow morgue at the hospital August 30, 2003 in Najaf, Iraq following yesterday's massive car bombing at the nearby Imam Ali shrine that killed more than 100 people. Police have arrested 4 people in conection with the crime and believe them to be connected with the Al Qaida terrorist group. The bombing took place at Iraq's most important Shiite shrine and killed among others, one of the most important Shiite clerics in Iraq, Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim.
An Iraqi woman walks along rows of bodies discovered in a mass grave South of Baghdad, and lied out in a building in Iraq, May 29, 2003. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, thousands of bodies have been pulled from mass grave sites around the country, evidence of the brutal, bloody regime of the former dictator.
Iraqi mother Wafaa Hussein, tries to revive her dead son Thaer, aged six, at a Baquba morgue, northeast of Baghdad, 16 September 2007. The boy was shot by an unidentified sniper while riding with his family in a public bus from Baghdad to Baquba.
The bodies of two Iraqi men lie on the floor of a hospital after they were killed in a car bomb in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, 29 August 2007. Four people died in the explosion and eight were wounded.
A hospital worker gestures to the inside off an ambulance as he readies to off load bodies at the morgue of the Karkh hospital following a blast outside an army recruitment and Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (ICDC) center in Baghdad early this morning 17 June 2004. At least 33 people were killed and another 127 wounded, including a woman, when a car bomb exploded in the gates of a recruitment centre for the new Iraqi army in Baghdad, a hospital source said.
An Iraqi mourns over his dead brother during a funeral procession at Sunni Umm al-Qura mosque, west of Baghdad, 04 April 2006. Seven Iraqi Sunni men, who were kidnapped from Baghdad's al-Shula district last week and then found shot dead, were buried today. Scores of bodies are being recovered daily across Iraq in what are believed to be sectarian killings since the bombing of a Shiite shrine in the northern town of Samarra in February. Hundreds of people have died in the ensuing violence since the Samarra mosque attack, mostly Sunnis in alleged Shiite reprisals.
Insurgents killed by U.S. Marines during the assault on Fallujah lie on the ground November 14, 2004 in Iraq. U.S. and Iraqi forces continue to push their offensive in Fallujah, battling remaining pockets of resistance.
A suicide bomber wrapped with an explosive belt lies dead on the floor, killed before blowing himself up by Iraqi security guards, at the headquarters of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (SCIRI) party 26 June 2004 in Baquba, 60 kms northeast Baghdad. A group of armed men killed four people and injured two others when they stormed the headquarters this major Shiite political party in the city. The suicide attacker was among the insurgents.
An employee at a hospital morgue carts in a dead boy as another bodies lie in the room 05 April 2004 in Baghdad's Shiite district of Sadr city. Fresh fighting between US forces and Shiite militiamen erupted in Baghdad's al-Shula neighborhood, with two Apache helicopters firing on targets in the area.
