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Baghdad airport seen from the air, July 2003.
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US helicopters on the tarmac at Baghdad airport.
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A bank line in the Mansour district of Baghdad.
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Location on the Baghdad-Amman road with an international phone connection. Two journalists were killed here when bombed by US forces during the war.
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Abu Hanifa Mosque in Baghdad showing damage from tank shells on clock tower. Firefights occurred here during and after the takeover of Baghdad.
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The "eternal flames" of Kirkuk in northern Iraq where natural gas seepages have kept the fires going for hundreds of years.
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The town of Falluja on the Euphrates river as seen from the air in July 2003. This town has been a hotbed of resistance to American forces.
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An Iraqi palm tree, May 2003.
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New headquarters of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Baghdad, May 2003.
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Some oil facilities in Iraq's northern Kirkuk oil fields.
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One of Baghdad's famous double-decker buses in the Mansour district, May 2003.
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Iraq's tomb to the fallen of the Iran-Iraq war, ringed by American tanks in May 2003.
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Gasoline lines in Baghdad, May 2003.
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One of the cars of the late Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein who was killed by US forces in Mosul after the war.
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One of Saddam Hussein's massive palaces seen from the air. Built on an artifical island in an artifical lake. July 2003.
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Baghdad's telecom tower still standing while the phone exchange immediately next to it lies destroyed by US precision-guided bombs.
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Close-up of the destroyed phone exchange next to the still-standing telecom tower.
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Swimming in the Tigris river in Baghdad.
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Traditional Iraqi pots.
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The Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. Journalists were killed here towards the end of the war when a US tank fired on the hotel.
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Spot in Baghdad where Uday Hussein was nearly assassinated in 1996.
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The under-construction "Mother of All Battles Mosque". Minarets were designed to look like SCUD missiles. Today renamed "Mother of all Cities" mosque.
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The lone US soldier at the Iraq-Jordan border in May 2003. The sign reads "The great, free Iraq bids you farewell and wishes you safety."
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