

Above, NY Times photojournalist Joao Silva shoots the scene of a car bombing in Baghdad in October, 2003.

Sgt. Jesse E. Leach drags Lance CPL Juan Valdez Castillo of the for 4th mobile assault platoon weapons company 2nd battalion 8th Marines to safety moments after he was shot by a sniper during a joined patrol with the Iraqi Army in Karmah, Anbar Province, on Oct. 31, 2006. Valdez was shot through the arm and the right side but survived.

An Iraqi boy peers into a car that was severely damaged after private security guards opened fire as the vehicle approached their convoy in Baghdad's Karada district in Iraq. Two Christian women were killed in the shooting and a third woman and child were injured. (This photo was taken after the car was towed to a nearby police station following the incident on Oct. 9, 2007.)

A militiaman loyal to the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr waves his weapon atop a burning American tank after it was destroyed during clashes yesterday between the Mahdi Army and American forces in Sadr City, a rebel stronghold in Baghdad, Iraq. The U.S. military said the tank's crew escaped.

A Lebanese man moves through rubble in the Bir al-Abed district that was destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut during a tour organized by the information office of Hezbollah on July 20, 2006.
