Iraqi boys in a village near the city of Najaf in Central Iraq appear glad to be back in school April 4, for the first time since the war started. U.S. Army soldiers from the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion helped clean up the school that was damaged by artillery fire. The soldiers also took money out of their own pockets to pay the teacher several months salary in advance. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell
A soldier from the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion speaks with a boy while bags of rice and wheat are delivered to a village near the city of Najaf in central Iraq on April 4. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell
An Iraqi girl attends to her lessons April 4 in a village school near the city of Najaf. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell
An Iraqi boy offers a flower to a British solider during patrols in Basra, April 8, 2003. Photo by Mark Richards, Pool/Reuters
Young girls hold hands as they walk with their father down a street on the outskirts of the town of Al Hillah south of Baghdad, April 9, 2003.
A smiling Iraqi woman holds her baby as a column of U.S. vehicles from the 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor passes through the town of Kerbala south west of Baghdad, April 7, 2003.
A member of 21 Squadron in Britain's 3 Regular Army Air Corps, 16 Air Assault Brigade, walks beside an Iraqi boy near the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003.
Iraqi women and children dance with joy as they see soldiers from Britain's 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment enter their village, north of the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003
British Soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade throw chocolate bars from their ration packs to Iraqi children, in the village of Qaryat Nasr north of of the city of Basra, in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003.