Boy holds an oar while another prepares to jumps off the prow a grounded boat on the dried up soil of what was Lake Hamrin in Iraq's Diyala province...
Dogs wade to cool off in the water in the remains of Lake Hamrin in Iraq's Diyala province on May 20, 2022. - After a drop in rainfall and a...
An Iraqi vendor presses citrus fruit at his stand along a main shopping street in Baghdad on February 21 2009.The fruit are grown in orchards in the...
An Iraqi man detained by US forces for alleged links to al-Qaeda in Iraq is led out of a combat outpost in the restive Diyala Province, located...
Soldiers from Ghostrider Company 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment patrol through the desert as they hunt for caves and tunnels used by...
Soldiers from Ghostrider Company 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment climb a desert ridge as they hunt for caves and tunnels used by insurgents...
Soldier from Ghostrider Company 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment questions a detained Iraqi man with alleged links to Sunni insurgent groups...
Iraqi children stare at US soldiers from 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment on patrol in the restive Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, on...
Soldiers from 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment take cover behind a wall as a cloud of smoke rises from an explosion of ordinances found...
Soldiers from 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment gather around a cache of mortars and artillery found buried in an orchard during a patrol in...
Iraqi army soldiers from the 4th Brigade of the 5th Division stand in ranks during their graduation ceremony at Besmaya Range Complex on March 18...
Iraqi army soldiers from the 4th Brigade of the 5th Division march with Iraqi flags during their graduation ceremony at Besmaya Range Complex on...
Iraqi army soldiers from the 4th Brigade of the 5th Division march in ranks during their graduation ceremony at Besmaya Range Complex on March 18...
Iraqi army soldiers from the 4th Brigade of the 5th Division stand in ranks during their graduation ceremony at Besmaya Range Complex on March 18...
Sunni tribal leader and US soldiers from Iron Company 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment look at the Diyala river valley at a crossing point...
Democratic senator and chairman of the US Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, steps out of an armoured Stryker fighting vehicle as he arrives at a...
Soldier from Ghostrider Company 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment photographs an Iraqi villager holding a placard with his personal data...
Soldiers from Ghostrider Company 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment rest around a car during an operation to investigate sectarian violence...
Soldiers from Ghostrider Company 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment prepare to set out on a foot patrol after occupying an Iraqi home for the...
Soldier from Ghostrider Company 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment talks with an Iraqi woman whose home his company has occupied during an...
Soldier from 2nd Battalion 23rd Infantry Regiment, patrols as a US military attack helicopter flies overhead in the restive Diyala province,...
Sgt. Jonathan Silva-Mateo, with the Army 2-1 Cavalry and of Miami Beach, Florida, helps clear a village with the Iraqi Army February 27, 2008 in...
Sgt. Jonathan Silva-Mateo with the Army 2-1 Cavalry and of Miami Beach, Florida keeps watch over burning brush February 27, 2008 in Diyala Province,...
Woman covers her face while holding a child February 24, 2008 in Diyala Province, Baquba, Iraq. Baquba was until recently the geographical...
Fighter with the Sunni awakening movement of the Iraqi Diyala province takes a combat position as he patrols al-Aswad village in the province...
Soldiers with the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry out of Ft. Lewis, Washington traverse fields on the way to conducting house to house searches...
Soldiers with the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry out of Ft. Lewis, Washington, traverse fields on the way to conducting house to house searches...
Iraqi males are blindfolded by U.S. Soldiers in the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry out of Ft. Lewis, Washington, during a raid December 3, 2007 in...
Men sit handcuffed and blindfolded after being detained by U.S. Soldiers in the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry out of Ft. Lewis, Washington,...
An American Special Forces training supervisor assists Iraqi army soldiers at an advanced combat class July 16, 2007 at a base near Baqouba in the...
Iraqi pedestrians pass by as American Special Forces guard a meeting of tribal sheikhs July 15, 2007 in Kanan in the Diyala province of Iraq....
Iraqi soldiers guard blindfolded suspects at a military detention centre in the restive city of Baquba, in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, 30...
Iraqi refugees from the violence-ridden Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, eat inside their tent, provided by the Iraqi Red Crescent Society in...
Iraqi refugees from the violence-ridden Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, sit in their tent, provided by the Iraqi Red Crescent Society in the...
Military convoy drives past an Iraqi army checkpoint just outside Kirkush military base, 100 kms east of Baghdad they conclude their mission 29...
Soldier from 3rd Brigade of 3rd Infantry Division sits against the wall on the roof of a government building of the Diyala province 28 July 2005 in...
Iraqi policemen inspect what's left of a car bomb outside the Diyala province Police headquarters 07 February 2005 in Baquba, 60 km north of Baghdad....
An Iraqi policeman checks the damage at a Sunni mosque that was destroyed during violence earlier in the month in the town of Muqdadiyah, northeast...
Iraqi government forces and allied militias inspect two bodies in the northern part of Diyala province, bordering Salaheddin province, as they take...
Iraqi government forces and allied militias gesture as they hold the national flag in the northern part of Diyala province, bordering Salaheddin...
Iraqi government forces and allied militias fire weaponry from a position in the northern part of Diyala province, bordering Salaheddin province, as...
An Iraqi Sunni fighter checks house that was damaged during clashes against Islamic State group fighters in the village of Sharween in Diyala...
Iraqi government forces celebrate while holding an Islamis Sate group flag after they claimed they have gained complete control of the Diyala...
Iraqi government forces celebrate while holding an Islamis Sate group flag after they claimed they have gained complete control of the Diyala...
An Iraqi Army soldier of the Iraqi 5th Division prays along a new dirt road made to ease the fight against Islamic State militants in Diyala Province...
Peshmerga fighters' miltary vehicles are positioned at their post in the strategic Jalawla area, in Diyala province, which is a gateway to Baghdad,...
Kurdish Peshmergas bombing to area of Islamic State during the fight against IS militants to regain the control of the town of Celavle in Diyala...
Iraqi volunteers who joined government forces to fight against Sunni jihadist militants of the Islamic State hold a position at a checkpoint in...
Volunteer who joined the Iraqi army to fight against Jihadist militants of the Islamic State stands in a truck as he holds a position in Al-Othaym in...
Member of Kurdish Peshmerga forces takes position overlooking militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant positions in Jalawla in the...
Kurdish Peshmerga forces fire missiles during clashes with militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant jihadist group in Jalawla in the...
Delegate from Baqubah looks at a ballot printed in English and Arabic 12 July 2003 as he votes for the first governorate selection convention for the...
This picture taken on April 3, 2024 shows a view of Lake Hamrin in Iraq's Diyala province which had previously dried up in a drought and filled up...
Fishermen inspect their catch in their net as they stand along the shore of Lake Hamrin in Iraq's Diyala province on April 3, 2024 which had...
Fishermen stand by a boat near the shore of Lake Hamrin in Iraq's Diyala province on April 3, 2024 which had previously dried up in a drought and...
Students attend class at the mixed-gender al-Tafawuq elementary school, which rents mud brick buildings with thatched roofs on a farm to be used as...
Students attend class at the mixed-gender al-Tafawuq elementary school, which rents buildings on a farm as makeshift classrooms, in the Bani Saad...
Students walk outside one of the mud brick buildings with thatched roofs on a farm, used as makeshift classrooms by the mixed-gender al-Tafawuq...
Students gather outside one of the mud brick buildings with thatched roofs on a farm, used as makeshift classrooms by the mixed-gender al-Tafawuq...
Students attend class at the mixed-gender al-Tafawuq elementary school, which rents mud brick buildings with thatched roofs on a farm to be used as...
