Fallujah

Four-year-old Ali looks up at Iraqi Special Forces soldiers searching and clearing an apartment building

Fallujah

A Marine readies for battle after another soldier in his platoon was seriously injured when he was shot in an

ambush

Fallujah

Marines with the 2nd Battalion’s Fox Company yell to comrades as they head into battle after Iraqi militants

seriously wound a Marine in an ambush on a U.S. patrol. Marines in the city fought insurgents in some of the war’s

heaviest combat

Baghdad

A hooded Shi‘ite militant marches next to a poster of Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr

City, named for the cleric’s father. A U.S. crackdown on al-Sadr sparked a Shi‘ite uprising that shook the coalition’s

control over Iraq

Ramadi

After a dust storm, Marines with 2nd Battalion's Echo Company patrol for insurgents

Mosul

A U.S. Army soldier guards Mosul's city hall following a clash that killed three Iraqis