An Iraqi boy walks past a blood stained rainwater puddle the day after a suicide bomber blew him self up as mourners flocked into a hall next to the Sadreen mosque, where a service was being held for Hisham al-Araji, the Mosul representative for radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr, in the northern city of Mosul 11 March 2005. Forty-seven people were killed and were 81 wounded in the suicide attack.
An Iraqi man weeps next to the body of a dead child killed in an explosion at the morgue of the general hospital in the northeastern town of Baquba some 60 kms from Baghdad on November 16, 2008. A suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in Iraq's volatile Diyala province today, killing at least 15 people, including seven policemen, a security official said.
United States Military surgeons treat wounded soldiers in the Emergency room of the Balad Hospital at the Balad Air Force base in Iraq.
An Iraqi policeman's Lieutenant stars lay in a puddle of blood after a car bomb attack against the police station November 22, 2003 in Baquba, Iraq. Cars packed with explosives were detonated outside two police stations north of Baghdad killing at least 15 people and wounded dozens more.
A wounded Iraqi girl inspects, 03 June 2007 the rubble at the site, where she was injured in a car bomb which tore, 22 May 2007 through a market in the flashpoint Baghdad district of Amil. Tens of Iraqis were killed and wounded in the blast, the vast majority of which were women and children. A car bomb targeting police and an attack on a minibus left 15 people dead 03 June 2007 in Iraq's increasingly violent eastern province of Diyala.
A wounded Iraqi receives medical treatment by US Soldiers from the First Battalion, 17th Infantry after he was injured during an attack carried by insurgents in Mosul, north of Baghdad, 29 October 2005. The US military said that it had carried out an air strike on a senior Al Qaeda insurgent who was meeting others in Iraq near the Syrian border, but gave no details of possible casualties.
US soldiers evacuate a wounded comrade in the restive city of Ramadi, 100 kms west of Baghdad, 29 November 2004. US infantrymen stationed in the restive Sunni bastion of Ramadi in western Iraq display exceptional morale in spite of the human losses inflicted by often invisible adversaries.
A picture released by the People's Mujahedeen late on July 29, 2009, shows a man allegedly killed during clashes with Iraqi security forces at the Iranian opposition-in-exile Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad in the Diyala province. Clashes flared for a second day between Iraqi security forces and residents of the camp housing Iran's main exiled opposition.
Medics treat a badly wounded man at the Al-Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad following a car bomb explosion on April 6, 2009. A spate of bloody car bombings in Baghdad recalled the blackest days of violence in the Iraqi capital as at least 32 people were killed and nearly 130 were wounded.
A victim lays in the back of a pick-up truck at the hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk some 225 km from Baghdad on December 11 2008. At least 45 people were killed and 93 wounded by a suicide bomber at a restaurant outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, the largest such death toll in nearly six months, officials said. Women and children were among the victims of the attack on the "Abdullah" restaurant, an interior ministry official in Baghdad said.
An Iraqi medic checks an injured man brought into the emergency room of the general hospital in the northeastern city of Baquba some 60kms from Baghdad following a suicide bombing on November 10 2008. A female suicide bomber killed four Sunni guards at checkpoint and wounded at least 15 civilians in central Iraq, a military and medical official said.
A blood stain is seen on the ground as an Iraqi policeman and a youth stand near a damaged Kebab kiosk where an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off last night in Baghdad's Palestine street on October 30, 2008. The blast killed five people and wounded another 13.
An Iraqi medic treats a wounded woman at the Baquba central hospital, northeast of Baghdad, on October 9, 2008 following a roadside bomb. A Sunni militia leader working with US forces was killed in the roadside blast along with three other family members today, north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, security officials said.
An Iraqi medic treats a wounded man at a hospital in the restive city of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad on March 24, 2008. The victim was wounded today in a roadsibe bomb attack in Baquba. While the number of US troops killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion stands at 4,000, up to three times as many Iraqi soldiers have died -- and the number of civilians killed runs into tens and probably hundreds of thousands.
Iraqis inspect the wreckage of a blood-smeared vehicle that was caught in a car bomb that killed five and wounded seven in Baghdad's Al-Shuala neighbourhood on March 23, 2008. A wave of attacks across Iraq today killed 47 people, while insurgents fired a barrage of mortars at Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, sending US embassy staff scurrying into bunkers.
Iraqis remove human remains from the site of a suicide attack in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, central Iraq, on March 17, 2008. A suicide attack in Karbala killed at least 36 people today, a health official told AFP. At least 50 people were wounded in the blast which occurred near the revered Imam Hussein shrine, said Alaa Hamud Dadair, director of Karbala's health directorate.
An Iraqi man carries blood soaked clothes which belonged to a victim killed at the site of a roadside bomb on the Basra-Nasiriyah road in southern Iraq on March 11, 2008. At least 16 people were killed today when the passenger bus they were travelling in was hit by a roadside bomb on the Basra-Nasiriyah road, local police said. At least 22 people were wounded in the bombing that took place some 430 kilometers (267 miles) south of Baghdad, Nasiriyah police Lieutenant Colonel Ali Siwan said.
