Iraq Photos: March 12 -- March 18

Iraqi children play by a defaced mural of the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his hometown of Tikrit, Iraq, 80 miles north of Baghdad, Sunday, March 18, 2007. This week marks the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

In this image taken from television, a U.S. army vehicle burns in an eastern suburb of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 18, 2007, reportedly after having been attacked by insurgents. There was no official comment on the attack by U.S. officials.

Iraqi children play among the ruins of a former Iraqi Army air defense headquarters, where they live in their makeshift homes, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 18, 2007. This army complex was destroyed in the war's initial bombing campaign in 2003.

A U.S. army soldier from B Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, walks past a street vendor during a foot patrol in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Saturday, March 17, 2007.

A U.S. Army medic checks the eye of an elderly woman in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 17, 2007. The U.S. military's new medical clinic in a school in Sadr City is part of a growing number of civil outreach projects that American commanders hope will win good will from ordinary Iraqis.

A man prays at a Shiite shrine in Kufa, Iraq, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Friday, March 16, 2007.

Smoke rises from behind the French Embassy in central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 15, 2007, after a suicide car bomber apparently targeted a convoy carrying the head of the city council, Sabir al-Issawi, wounding three of his bodyguards. At least three other people were killed and 25 were wounded in the blast.

Iraqi soldiers celebrate next to a wrecked car that was driven by a suicide bomber in Baghdad's Yarmuk neighborhood, March 15, 2007. The soldiers opened fire on the driver before he managed to reach their checkpoint, killing him and blowing up the car at a distance.

An Iraqi woman and her granddaughter stand on the doortstep of their home at the site of a car-bomb attack in Iskandaria, March 15, 2007.

A young Iraqi boy covers his ears as he approaches Sgt. Andrew Simpson, 24, from York, Pa., of Alpa Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne, after hearing gunshots in the Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 14, 2007.

A woman passes the wreck of a car destroyed in a suicide car-bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 14, 2007. A suicide bomber struck an Iraqi army checkpoint in Baghdad's Yarmouk neighborhood, killing two and wounding four people, police said.

An Iraqi army soldier looks on as U.S. troops walk down a street in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Wednesday, March 14, 2007. Joint U.S. and Iraqi forces carried out a raid in parts of Sadr City Wednesday.

A U.S. soldier stands guard in Sadr City, a predominately Shiite Baghdad suburb, March 13, 2007.

Relatives of Alaa Sabah grieve over his coffin outside Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital, Iraq, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Sabah was killed late Monday in a mortar attack on al-Shurta neighborhood in west Baghdad.

A relative of Alaa Sabah grieves beside his coffin outside Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital, Iraq, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Sabah was killed late Monday in a mortar attack on al-Shurta neighborhood in west Baghdad.

A U.S. Army Apache helicpoter flies as the sun sets over Baghdad, March 12, 2007. The latest U.S. military deaths brought to 3,197 the number of troops killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures.

A soldier of the 69th Squadron, 3rd brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, searches a suspect just outside Muqdadiyah, Iraq, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Monday, March 12, 2007.

Soldiers of the 69th Squadron, 3rd brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, search a house after discovering a roadside bomb nearby, in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Monday, March 12, 2007.

An Iraqi army soldier blindfolds terrorist suspects in an Iraqi army compound in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 12, 2007. U.S. and Iraqi forces conducted a joint operation on the outskirts of Baqouba Monday, apprehended 27 suspected terrorists and seized weapons and stolen vehicles.

An Iraqi army soldier takes cover after a roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 12, 2007. At least 47 people were killed by blasts in the Iraqi capital Sunday.

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