Karmah, Iraq — Oct, 31, 2006: Marine Sgt. Jesse E. Leach drags Lance Cpl. Juan Valdez to safety moments after Valdez was shot by a sniper during a joint patrol with the Iraqi army. Valdez was shot in the arm and the right side but survived.

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Najaf, Iraq — Aug. 22, 2004: A militiaman loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr fires toward U.S. positions.

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Nineveh, Iraq — April 24, 2010: A soldier is photographed during a night mission.

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Baghdad — 2004: Iraqis bathe in the Tigris River.

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Kirmashiya Marsh — Feb. 18, 2004: A Marsh Arab guides his canoe through Kirmashiya Marsh in southern Iraq.

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Sadr City, Iraq — Feb. 11, 2005: An Iraqi Shiite man talks to another through a hole in a cloth screen outside a mosque in Sadr City, a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad, during Friday prayers. Holes are cut into the cloth screen to allow wind through.

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Blantyre, Malawi — June 29, 2005: Prison inmates sleep on the floor, packed so tightly that they turn only when a designated prisoner wakes them to do so en masse.

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Kurmashia Marsh, Iraq — Feb. 18, 2004: An Iraqi Marsh Arab releases his livestock at dawn to graze.

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