Iraq Photos: Sept. 18 -- Sept. 24

An Iraqi family mourns next to the body of their relative in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 24, 2006, after he was killed by unidentified assailants along with two other civilians, who then sped away in a car, police said.

Children throw stones at a burning vehicle after a roadside bomb attack in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 24, 2006.

Iraqi civil defense workers cleans the site of a bomb blast, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 24, 2006. Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called on Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis to use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to put aside their differences and end sectarian violence, the day after 38 Shiites were killed in a retaliatory bombing in the capital.

An Iraqi looks at the site of a car bomb explosion, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 24, 2006. Six people were killed and 25 injured in scattered violence around Iraq, including a mortar attack on the Health Ministry and a car bombing targeting a police patrol in Baghdad.

A tailor sews Iraqi flags in his shop at a market in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 23, 2006.

Iraqi civil defense workers in a plain cloths, clear the site after a bomb blast near a kerosene tanker truck, in Shiite district of Sadr city, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 23, 2006.

Iraq women shop for prayer beads at the start of the holy month of Ramadanin Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 23, 2006.

Sunnite Iraqis pray outside a mosque in Baghdad Sept. 22, 2006. Iraqis attended the last weekly prayers before Ramadan as U.S. commanders warned of more fierce violence during the fasting month than the attacks that killed thousands in July and August.

Iraqi army soldiers frisk the occupants of a vehicle, just before the prayer day vehicle ban, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2006.

An Iraqi and an Italian soldier stand next to each other during a handover ceremony at a military base where Italian and Romanian troops are settled in the town of Nasiriyah south Baghdad September 21, 2006.

An Iraqi man walks past a burning fuel pipe-line, on the outskirts of Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2006, after it was blown up by insurgents on Sept. 21, 2006, police said.

Locals view the site after a parked car bomb exploded near an electricity office in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 21, 2006.

An Iraqi man injured in a parked car bomb explosion near an electricity office grimaces in pain at a hospital, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 21, 2006.

An armored vehicle of U.S. soldiers drives past the site of a parked car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 21, 2006.

Iraqi children prepare to go to their respective classrooms after morning assembly, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 20, 2006. Six million students nationwide returned to school after three months of summer vacations, according to Iraqi ministry of education.

British soldiers patrol a street in the southern city of Basra, September 19, 2006. A British soldier was wounded in a firefight with gunmen in Iraq's main southern city of Basra.

U.S. soldiers secure the site of a car bomb explosion, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 19, 2006.

Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein listens as the prosecutor addresses the court during his trial in the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 19, 2006.

Freed Iraqi prisoners kiss the ground after being released by the authorities, Sept. 19, 2006. Iraqi and U.S. authorities released 20 prisoners under the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's national reconciliation efforts, after their cases were reviewed by a committee.

Karwan Abdullah Tawfiq shows his Dutch passport during the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven other co-defendants in the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 19, 2006.

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