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First Lt. Scott Baccigalopi of Alvin attends a memorial service at Joint Base Balad for the seven Texas and Oklahoma National Guard soldiers killed in a CH-47 Chinook crash in Iraq on Thursday. 'Once we got the news, it was definite. It was sort of…

Using skills honed over the course of the Iraq war, U.S. soldiers have gradually brought a small of measure of stability to a country once rife with civil unrest and terror strikes. Violence against Americans has dramatically decreased. But nearly…

Iraqi children face an uncertain future as they grow up between war and peace.

Soldiers file through a small home in the Rashid district in southern Baghdad after a brief search in the middle of the night. Weary of making new insurgents, soldiers try to knock on doors rather than kicking them down. But it may be to little too…

Children fight for candy during a humanitarian mission in the Diyala Province. Despite some infrastructure improvements, clean water is still scarce and most Iraqis only have a few hours of electricity a day.

Shots ring out in the southern Baghdad sky. No one seems to notice. Shoppers continue milling around Market Street, completely unalarmed. In Iraq, gunfire is a complicated thing. Usually, it's the deadly business of war and insurgency. But, on…

Iraqi women eye a soldier after they were removed from a house during the interrogation of an Iraqi Police officer in Qaryat al Jaffah, Iraq.

Mourners gather for a funeral in Fallujah, Iraq. Tired from nearly six years of violence, some Iraqis are wistful for the security provided by a strongman, like Saddam Hussein.

An Iraqi woman walks through a construction site in Baghdad. The home building market is booming in some parts of Iraq as Iraqis become more confident that recent security gains will last. A few exiled Iraqis have recently begun returning home.

Sgt. First Class Heriberto Hernandez leaves to get information for an Iraqi woman after her two grandsons were detained by the Iraqi Army in Shakarat, Iraq. She feared they would be beaten or simply disappear all together.