2. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT It's been 10 years since U.S.-led
forces waged war in Iraq. In this collection of some of Reuters
iconic images from the conflict, the photographers provide a
personal account of the events they captured. 45 PHOTOS
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3. CENTRAL IRAQ, Damir Sagolj:
Caption: U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard
Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds
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4. BAQUBA, Jorge Silva:
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Caption: An Iraqi man suspected of having explosives in his car is held 4
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after being arrested by the U.S army near Baquba October 15, 2005.
5. NAJAF, Ali Jasim:
Caption: Mays, a young Iraqi Shi'ite girl, cries
after a mortar shell which landed outside the
March family's home in a Najaf residential area
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injured her uncle August 18, 2004.
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6. BASRA, Atef Hassan:
Caption: British soldier jumps from a
burning tank which was set ablaze after
a shooting incident in the southern Iraqi
city of Basra September 19, 2005.
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7. MARYLAND, Larry Downing:
Caption: San Antonio Rampage hockey player
U.S. Army's Shane Parsons refreshes with a
shower of cologne after playing sled hockey March
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game during National Disabled Festival in
Laurel, Maryland, April 10, 2010. Click to continue
8. BOSTON, Brian Snyder
Caption: Alicia Casilio, dressed
as an Iraqi civilian, stands
silently at an anti-Iraq war
protest in
Boston, Massachusetts January
11, 2007
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9. BAGHDAD, Damir Sagolj
Caption: An Iraqi woman tries to explain that she has nothing to
do with illegal fuel as soldiers from the 2nd battalion, 32nd Field
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21, patrol search for illegal fuel sellers in Baghdad
August 6, 2007.
10. TIKRIT, Damir Sagolj:
Caption: A detained Iraqi man with a plastic
bag covering his head sits in garden of a
house searched by U.S. soldiers during a
night raid in Tikrit October 30, 2003.
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11. BAGHDAD, Ceerwan Aziz
Caption: A man runs down a street warning people to flee
shortly after a twin car bomb attack at Shorja market in
Baghdad February 12, 2007.
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12. ABU GHRAIB PRISON, Damir Sagolj:
Caption: An Iraqi detainee gestures
toward U.S. soldiers through bars of
his cell at Abu Ghraib prison outside
Baghdad May 17, 2004.
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13. AL-ASAD AIRBASE, Jason Reed
Caption: President George W. Bush walks in
front of Humvees with Defense Secretary
Robert Gates and Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice following remarks to the
press after nightfall at Al-Asad airbase in Anbar
Province September 3, 2007.
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14. BAGHDAD, Shannon Stapleton:
Caption: U.S. Air Force Major Stacie
Shafran carries her luggage to a loading
paddock while waiting for her
departure from Iraq at the former U.S.
Sather Air Base near Baghdad, Iraq
December 14, 2011.
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15. BASRA, Jerry Lampen
Caption: An Iraqi girl holds her sister as she waits for her mother March
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16. BAIJI, Bob Strong:
Caption: An Iraqi man unbuttons his shirt as U.S.
soldiers point their laser sights on him during an
operation near Baiji oil refinery December 24, 2007.
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17. FALLUJA, Eliana Aponte:
Caption: U.S. Marines carry an
injured colleague to a
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helicopter near the city of
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18. AL NASSIRIYAH, Damir Sagolj
Caption: A body of Iraqi man lies by the road
side north of Al Nassiriyah on March 25, 2003.
More than 30 men of military age were killed on
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the key northern highway by an apparent U.S.
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air strike on the vehicles carrying the Iraqis.
19. BAGHDAD, Goran Tomasevic
Caption: U.S. Marine Corp Assaultman Kirk Dalrymple
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watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam
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Hussein falls in central Baghdad April 9, 2003.
20. BASRA, Atef Hassan
Caption: An Iraqi police officer checks a donkey, pulling a disabled
man on a cart, before allowing it to enter a polling station in the
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21. BAGHDAD, Goran Tomasevic
Caption: An Iraqi woman watches
U.N. weapons inspectors leave
Saddam airport in Baghdad
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22. BASRA, Chris Helgren Caption: A family flees past a destroyed
Iraqi T-55 tank after a mortar attack on
British Army positions in the city of Basra
March 28, 2003.
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23. ARLINGTON, Larry Downing
Caption: Laura Youngblood, widow of U.S. Navy Petty
Officer Travis L. Youngblood, touches his grave stone
while visiting his grave in Section 60 of Arlington
National Cemetery during the Memorial Day weekend
in Arlington, Virginia, May 24, 2009. Youngblood died
of wounds received in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom in July of 2005 in Iraq.
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24. BAQUBA, Damir Sagolj
Caption: A barefoot Iraqi man is detained by soldiers of
U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division (Task Forse Ironhorse)
during a raid in the suburb of Baquba November 9, 2003. March
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25. BAQUBA, Damir Sagolj
Caption: A soldier of U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division
(Task Force Ironhorse) searches through dense
vegetation around the Diala river where Iraqi militants
are hiding outside Baquba early November 13, 2003.
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26. BAQUBA, Goran Tomasevic
Caption: An Iraqi girl holds her hands up
while U.S. and Iraqi soldiers search her
family house in Baquba early June 30, 2007.
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27. MOSUL, Eduardo Munoz
Caption: An Iraqi baby lies in a cradle
while a woman argues with U.S. soldiers of
1/8 Bravo Company searching for
weapons, explosives and information about March
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militants in the area during a foot patrol in 21, 2013
a neighborhood of Mosul June 26, 2008.
28. CAMP CASEY, Jason Reed
Caption: A photograph and dogtags of 20-year-
old U.S. Marine Alexander Arredondo, killed in
Najaf, Iraq on August 25, 2004, lie attached to
a cross at a symbolic cemetery at "Camp
Casey" near the ranch of U.S. President George
W. Bush in Crawford, Texas, April 6, 2007.
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29. BAGHDAD, Jerry Lampen
Caption: U.S. Marines kick in a door
while securing a building next to the
main hospital in central Baghdad April
15, 2003, which will be used as a
temporary Iraqi police headquarters.
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30. BAGHDAD, Carlos Barria
Caption: U.S. soldiers blindfold an Iraqi man after
arresting him during a night patrol at the Zafraniya
neighborhood, southeast of Baghdad September 4, 2007. March
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31. NEW YORK, Shannon Stapleton
Caption: Staff Sgt. Keith Fidler kisses his wife Cynthia, as
their son Kolin looks on, during a homecoming ceremony
in New York, April 8, 2011 for the New York Army National
Guard's 442nd Military Police Company's return from Iraq.
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32. BAGHDAD, Ahmed Malik
Caption: Policemen cry during a funeral of
their colleague a day after a bomb attack in
Baghdad's Jihad district November 3, 2010.
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33. ABOARD USS ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, Larry Downing
Caption: President George W.
Bush delivers a speech to crew
aboard the aircraft carrier USS
Abraham Lincoln as the carrier
steamed toward San
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34. BAGHDAD, Kieran Doherty
Caption: Elderly Iraqi women hold on to each other as they wait in line for a $40 emergency salary payment from
ORHA (Organisation for Relief and Humanitarian Aid) outside the pension office in Baghdad May 21 2003.
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35. GRITZ, Damir Sagolj
Caption: An assault team
member of U.S. Army's 4th
Infantry Division (Task Force
Ironhorse) carries a crying Iraqi
child out of a house during a pre-
dawn raid in the village of
Gritz, south of Baquba November
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36. NEW BAGHDAD, Carlos Barria
Caption: An Iraqi man holds the body of a
boy after a car bomb explosion at a market
in the neighborhood known as New
Baghdad, southeast of Baghdad February
18, 2007.
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37. BAGHDAD, Ceerwan Aziz
Caption: U.S. soldiers stand near the Swords of
Qadisiyah monument in Baghdad March 13, 2008. March
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38. DOVER, Courtesy of the USAF, account by
Jim Bourg
Caption: Coffins of U.S. military
personnel are prepared to be offloaded
at Dover Air Force Base in
Dover, Delaware in this undated photo. March
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39. BAQUBA, Goran Tomasevic
Caption: An Iraqi soldier sleeps
next to his Kalashnikov rifle on
the roof of a base in Baquba
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40. BAGHDAD, Mohammed Ameen
Caption: A wounded Iraqi woman is helped
after several bomb attacks in central
Baghdad July 27, 2006.
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41. MOSUL, Andrea Comas
Caption: U.S. soldiers from the Stryker brigade are
reflected in a mirror as they detain suspectedMarch
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insurgents during a night raid in Mosul in northern Iraq
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July 25, 2005.
42. MOSUL, Eduardo Munoz
Caption: A U.S. soldier of the
1/8 Infantry Battalion keeps
watch from the roof of a
building during a battlefield
circulation patrol in Mosul
June 25, 2008.
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43. BAGHDAD, Goran Tomasevic
Caption: U.S. soldiers push
the car of an Iraqi man to
start the engine at a check
point in north Baghdad June
13, 2007.
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44. AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Chris Helgren Caption: A row of U.S. Army helmets are perched on
M-16 rifles during a memorial at Al Asad air base
November 6, 2003 for the 15 victims of a Chinook
helicopter which was shot down by insurgents.
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45. WASHINGTON, Jim Bourg
Caption: Tears run from the
eyes of President George W.
Bush during a ceremony in
honor of Medal of Honor
winner Marine Cpl. Jason
Dunham in the East room of
the White House in
Washington, January
11, 2007.
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46. BAGHDAD, Carlos Barria
Caption: An Iraqi policeman watches a U.S.
Blackhawk helicopter leaving an Iraqi Police base
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southeast of Baghdad, February 14, 2007.
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BAGHDAD, Goran Tomasevic
Caption: An explosion rocks Baghdad during air strikes March 21, 2003. March
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