Iraq Photos: Jan. 26

Iraqi municipality workers remove provincial election campaign posters in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. Allies of Iraq's U.S.-backed prime minister appeared Sunday to have made gains in the provincial elections, rewarding groups credited with reining in insurgents and militias, according to unofficial projections.

Voters displaced by sectarian violence search for their names before voting in the country's provincial elections in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009.

An Iraqi man holds up an ink-stained finger after casting his vote in the country's provincial elections in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009.

An Iraqi girl holds up an ink-stained finger after her parents voted in the country's provincial elections in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009.

The mother, right, and aunt, left, of provincial council candidate Nebras Thaier hold up his campaign posters at a rally a day before the country's provincial elections in the Shiite city of Kufa, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009.

Mourners look at a campaign poster for Omer Farooq al-Ani, a Sunni candidate for provincial council killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009.

Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, seen on a poster, attend Friday prayers in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009.

Iraqi elections officials carry boxes of ballots cast by hospital patients, detainees and security forces in the country's provincial elections in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009.

Girls stand next to a sculpture of a shoe that serves as a monument to the shoes thrown at then-US president George W. Bush in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. The shoe-hurling last month at Bush spawned a flood of Web quips, political satire and street rallies across the Arab world. Now, it's inspired a work of art.

An unidentified Iraqi election official sorts ballots cast by hospital patients, detainees and security forces in the country's provincial elections, in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009.

Salwa Majid, seen with her newborn son, Haidar Karrar, holds up her ink-stained finger after she cast her vote from her hospital bed in the country's provincial elections in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009.

Iraqi policemen hold up their ink-stained fingers after casting their vote in the country's provincial elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009.

Iraqi soldiers display their ink-stained fingers after casting their votes in the country's provincial elections in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009.

An Iraqi soldier leaps onto the hood of his vehicle in the Shiite city of Najaf, 160 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009.

Nisreeen Yaseen, a candidate for provincial council, speaks to Iraqi women about the importance of voting as she campaigns in the Shiite city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009.

Mohammed al-Rubayie, a candidate for a provincial council seat, shares a light moment with a woman as he campaigns in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan, 26. 2009.

An Iraqi man reacts during a rally for candidates in the upcoming provincial elections in the Shiite city of Kufa, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 26, 2009.

Election Rally — AP Photo/Iraqi Government

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is greeted by schoolgirls at a political rally south of Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, Jan. 26, 2009.

Iraqi police officers secure a polling center in the al-Ubeidi neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan, 26. 2009.

Iraqi policewomen are seen at their graduation ceremony at the police academy in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan, 26. 2009. 490 women graduated from Iraqi police academy to be ready for Iraq's provincial elections on Jan. 31, 2009.

Iraq Photos: Jan. 26 - Feb. 1

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