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Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, fire mortar shells from the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq on Friday. Marines have been fighting insurgents in several neighborhoods in the western Iraqi city in order to regain control there.
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Marines control one of the main entrances to the city of Fallujah on Thursday. Hundreds of Iraqis, after being inspected by the Marines, entered the besieged city, taking with them tons of food and medical supplies for the people there.
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A Sunni insurgent holds a rocket-propelled grenade launcher as he flashes the victory sign at the site of an attack on a U.S. convoy near Abu Ghraib, Iraq, on Thursday.
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An unidentified injured U.S. service member is carried to a waiting ambulance at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Thursday. Eight soldiers injured during combat in Iraq were flown out of that country on a C-17 to get medical treatment at the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.
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Air Force Sgt. Casey Hust plays “Taps” on Thursday during a memorial service at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., for Capt. Judson Brinson and Capt. Thomas Moore, Air Force instructor pilots who were killed in the crash of a small military plane last weekend in Savannah, Ga. About 500 people attended the service, which was held in a hangar at the base.
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Ten-month-old Elena Escudero, strapped to her mother, Laurie, looks at the signs her mother holds to express thanks to soldiers from the 143rd Military Police Company, being welcomed home at the Army Reserve Center in West Hartford, Conn., on Thursday following service in Iraq. Escudero said she had no family or loved ones among the returning troops; she just wanted to express her appreciation.
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Staff Sgt. Stanley Souvenir, a member of the Army Reserve’s 320th Military Police Company, carries son Jordan, 2, as he holds the hand of his other son, Tyler, in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Thursday after the unit returned from a deployment to Iraq.
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Sgt. David Walker, from Eagle River, Alaska, with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment, 1st Armored Division Cavalry, tries to get some much-needed rest on Thursday in the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City after previously getting only two hours sleep.
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A crowd of Iraqis loyal to radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr cheer Thursday after attacking and burning two vehicles in a convoy of auto parts and fuel trucks destined for U.S. troops in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. The U.S. military vowed to crush the al-Medhi army and has labeled its leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, an “outlaw.”
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Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment, 1st Armored Division Cavalry, watch as a military surveillance plane circles over Sadr City, Iraq, on Thursday. |
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Coast Guardsman Jeremy Cummings mans an M-60 machine gun Wednesday on a patrol boat that is part of Joint Task Force operations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where detainees from the Afghanistan conflict are held. On April 20, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to consider whether the detainees can ask U.S. courts to review their cases. Approximately 600 prisoners from the U.S. war in Afghanistan remain in detention.
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Spc. Marcus Morris, from Gardner, Mass., mans a machine gun mounted atop a Humvee as he participates in a driving patrol at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday.
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A soldier removes posters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that were hanging on a statue in Firdos Square in Baghdad on Friday, the one-year anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. It was on April 9, 2003 that soldiers pulled down Saddam Hussein’s statue from this very place.
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Roger Severn, a soldier with the 143rd Military Police Company, hugs his son, Elliot, after he and other members of the unit returned home Thursday following their deployment to Iraq. The soldiers arrived at the Army Reserve Center in West Hartford, Conn.
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