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This is probably the first and last time the Picasso sculpture in Daley plaza gets written on. Anytime after this it has been blocked off. This is one my all time favorite photos I have taken. It was right before the war with Iraq was launched and about 15,000 people showed up. This was after everyone was leaving. It almost feels like it could be from any time period. Lots of unplanned chaos coinciding. The NO WAR looks like it is floating.
Iraqi forces during fighting in west Mosul on April 8, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Despite air support from the U.S and U.K, Iraqi forces have had to engage Islamic State in house to house fighting as they continue their battle to retake Iraq's second largest city of Mosul. Despite now controlling most of the city, Iraqi forces continue to face extremely stiff resistance from I.S fighters who are now surrounded on all sides and are fighting to the death.
Photos: Carl Court
In 2023, I travelled through southern iraq and Kurdistan. Rough itinerary: Basrah - southern marshes for the marsh Arabs - Ur and its ziggurat - Najaf - Babylon - Kerbala - Baghdad - Samarra - Hatra - Mosul and Nineveh - Karaqosh - Erbil - Akre for Nowruz - Mar Mattai - Jerwan - Lalish - Al Qosh - Duhok - Ahmedi - Barzan area - Shanidar Cave - back to Erbil - Soran - Rawanduz - Sulaymaniyah - Halabja - Hawraman - Tawella - Sulaymaniyah's Goyzha Mountain - Cyaxares tomb - Koya/Koysinjaq - Erbil.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - JANUARY 2: Iraqi female students, not wearing Islamic veils, walk on January 2, 2008 at the campus of Baghdad University in Baghdad, Iraq. As the security situation continues to improve in Baghdad, some of the Iraqi women have started to not dress in Islamic veils, which some of them were threatened and intimidated by extremist Islamist groups to wear.
A Apache combat helicopter passes the setting sun before he lands in a secured area in the south of the city of Najaf in central Iraq, March 23, 2003. US Army announced that they faced about 100 local people, including soldiers and members of the Baath party, in a heavy gunfight last night, before the Najaf area could be secured. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
U.S. Army Specialist Eric Alfredsen from Long Island, New York with 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, I-327th Infantry 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division Air Assault, plays soccer with a boy in Bayji (baiji), approximately 250km (180 miles) from Baghdad, November 25, 2007. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini (IRAQ)
An Iraqi boy gives Lance Cpl. Nick J. Luciano, a 21-year-old rifleman from Pennsgrove, N.J., a peace sign during Operation Sidewinder in Sadiquiyah, Iraq, Aug 1. He and other Marines assigned to 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment played a supportive role while Iraqi soldiers of 3rd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Division conducted a cordon and search to interupt insurgent activity in the area. Part of their role was also to assist the locals in their needs. The Marines serve under Regimental Combat Team 5 and are conducting operations in the Habbaniyah area.
A member of the Iraqi Special Forces conduct a final air mobility operations exercise at Camp Taji, Iraq, Nov. 27, 2017. Camp Taji is one of four Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve building partner capacity locations dedicated to training partner forces and enhancing their effectiveness on the battlefield. CJTF-OIR is the global Coalition to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Rachel Diehm)
Iraqi Forces Battle ISIS Jihadists During an Ongoing Military Operation in the Al-Intisar Area of Eastern Mosul
Iraqi forces in the Al-Intisar area in eastern Mosul in an ongoing military operation against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists, on January 1, 2017..Iraqi forces have retaken more than 60 percent of eastern Mosul from the Islamic State group since the battle for the city began in mid-October.
Photos: Ahmad Al-Rubye
Iraqi Special Forces Qwat al-Khasah drill advanced marksmanship on a range near Baghdad,Iraq, Jan. 11, 2020.
This advanced marksmanship training enhances Qwat al-Khasah soldiers’ ability close with and defeat Daesh.
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alec Dionne
An Iraqi woman holds a paper that reads in Arabic "Victory, victory to the Islamic resistance in Lebanon" during a protest in Baghdad's Shiite poor neighborhood of Sadr city 18 July 2006 in support of the Lebanese people as well as against the rape of a young Iraqi girl in Yusifiya last March. Israeli air strikes continued against Lebanon for the seventh consecutive day pushing the overall toll of the Lebanese civilians killed to at least 200. The Israeli attacks, which begun after the abduction of two of its soldiers in a cross border raid by Hezbollah, have also injured some 400 people, closed the Beirut International Airport and destroyed roads and bridges across the country. AFP PHOTO/WISSAM AL-OKAILI
The town of Iraq el Amir lies in a deep valley only minutes from Amman. The temperature is always warmer there and has a lot of farmers.
Iraqi forces during fighting in west Mosul on April 8, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Despite air support from the U.S and U.K, Iraqi forces have had to engage Islamic State in house to house fighting as they continue their battle to retake Iraq's second largest city of Mosul. Despite now controlling most of the city, Iraqi forces continue to face extremely stiff resistance from I.S fighters who are now surrounded on all sides and are fighting to the death.
Photos: Carl Court
Iraqi forces during fighting in west Mosul on April 8, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Despite air support from the U.S and U.K, Iraqi forces have had to engage Islamic State in house to house fighting as they continue their battle to retake Iraq's second largest city of Mosul. Despite now controlling most of the city, Iraqi forces continue to face extremely stiff resistance from I.S fighters who are now surrounded on all sides and are fighting to the death.
Photos: Carl Court
An Audience Member listens carefully to one of the speeches at the politics of war and America's grand strategy in Iraq session of the Iraq War in retrospect symposium on November 9th, 2012.
Iraqi Forces Battle ISIS Jihadists During an Ongoing Military Operation in the Al-Intisar Area of Eastern Mosul
Iraqi forces in the Al-Intisar area in eastern Mosul in an ongoing military operation against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists, on January 1, 2017..Iraqi forces have retaken more than 60 percent of eastern Mosul from the Islamic State group since the battle for the city began in mid-October.
Photos: Ahmad Al-Rubye
Members of the Iraqi Special Forces carry a mock casualty during a final air mobility operations exercise at Camp Taji, Iraq, Nov. 27, 2017. Camp Taji is one of four Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve building partner capacity locations dedicated to training partner forces and enhancing their effectiveness on the battlefield. CJTF-OIR is the global Coalition to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Rachel Diehm)