US marines from the 3/5 Lima company encounter a group of men, women and children in the Jolan district of Fallujah. US marines barged house-by-house through Fallujah finding everything from corpses and weapons to hostages.(AFP/Patrick Baz)
Iraqi men mourn the death of a relative killed during clashes in Samarra, November 12, 2004. In the past four days, there has been a step up in violence across the Sunni Muslim heartland of the country, including the towns Baquba, Samarra, Tikrit, Ramadi and parts of Baghdad. REUTERS/str