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A US soldier stands next to a burning oil well at Rumaila oil fields in 2003

A US Army soldier looks over Baghdad from the International Zone in Iraq in 2021. All photos: Getty Images

Troops are stationed in a guardhouse on the perimeter of the International Zone in Baghdad in 2021

US Army 82nd Airborne Division soldiers at their base in western Mosul in 2017

A US Army soldier stands guard during Christmas Day mass at Mar Hanna Church in Qaraqosh, Mosul, in 2016

On patrol outside Al Fadael School in northern Baghdad in 2009

Keeping watch near a monument at the heavily fortified Green Zone area in Baghdad in 2009

An Iraqi boy encounters a US soldier on ground patrol in the Baladiyat neighbourhood of Baghdad in 2008

New US soldiers raise their hands during an oath ceremony at Camp Victory, Baghdad, 2007

US soldiers set up security positions after landing in the desert at the start of Operation Diablo X in Baghdad in 2005

An Iraqi woman peers out of her house at a US soldier in Tall Afar in 2005

US Army troops clear abandoned houses of insurgent fighters in Fallujah in 2004

A US Marine shows new Iraqi Army soldiers how to use a missile, near Fallujah in 2004

US soldiers and Iraqi police investigate the scene of a car bombing at the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad in 2003

A serviceman with the US Army 101st Airborne 3-502 is silhouetted operating a 50-calibre Humvee-mounted machinegun in Mosul, 2003

US infantry soldiers use a Bradley fighting vehicle for cover outside Baghdad International Airport in 2003

A US soldier stands next to a burning oil well at Rumaila oil fields in 2003

A US Army soldier looks over Baghdad from the International Zone in Iraq in 2021. All photos: Getty Images

Troops are stationed in a guardhouse on the perimeter of the International Zone in Baghdad in 2021

US Army 82nd Airborne Division soldiers at their base in western Mosul in 2017

A US Army soldier stands guard during Christmas Day mass at Mar Hanna Church in Qaraqosh, Mosul, in 2016

On patrol outside Al Fadael School in northern Baghdad in 2009

Keeping watch near a monument at the heavily fortified Green Zone area in Baghdad in 2009

An Iraqi boy encounters a US soldier on ground patrol in the Baladiyat neighbourhood of Baghdad in 2008

New US soldiers raise their hands during an oath ceremony at Camp Victory, Baghdad, 2007

US soldiers set up security positions after landing in the desert at the start of Operation Diablo X in Baghdad in 2005

An Iraqi woman peers out of her house at a US soldier in Tall Afar in 2005

US Army troops clear abandoned houses of insurgent fighters in Fallujah in 2004

A US Marine shows new Iraqi Army soldiers how to use a missile, near Fallujah in 2004

US soldiers and Iraqi police investigate the scene of a car bombing at the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad in 2003

A serviceman with the US Army 101st Airborne 3-502 is silhouetted operating a 50-calibre Humvee-mounted machinegun in Mosul, 2003

US infantry soldiers use a Bradley fighting vehicle for cover outside Baghdad International Airport in 2003

A US soldier stands next to a burning oil well at Rumaila oil fields in 2003

US troops in Iraq - in pictures

Police detain a supporter of varied farmer unions during a sit-in protest at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in Noida. AFP

Best photos of December 3: Al Qudra sand dunes in Dubai to protests in Noida

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky on the red carpet at the Fashion Awards 2024 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. All photos: Getty Images

The Fashion Awards 2024 - in pictures