Iraq Photos: Sept. 24-- Sept. 30

Iraqi students wait in line to go to their respective classrooms at a primary school, in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007. More than five million students nationwide returned to school on Wednesday after three months of summer vacations, according to the Iraqi ministry of education.

U.S. soldiers from Alpha Company 1/38 Infantry Regiment patrol in downtown Baquba, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007, some 30 miles northeast of Bagdad.

An Iraqi police officer guards two detainees who had been arrested when they were trying to launch a Katusha rocket against Kirkuk airport about 180 miles north of Baghdad this afternoon on Sunday, Sept 30, 2007. The gunmen belong to the Naqshabandi armed group which formed three months ago in Kirkuk to fight American troops.

A U.S. Army soldier from Alpha Company 1/38 Infantry Regiment patrols during a joint militant clean-up operation with Iraqi soldiers in Baquba, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007, some 30 miles northeast from Bagdad.

Iraqi Shiite worshipers attend Friday prayers in the holy city of Karbala, central Iraq, September 28, 2007. U.S. forces carried out an air strike, killing at least 10 people, including women and children, in a building in a mainly Sunni area of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.

Iraqi Shiite worshippers attend Friday prayers during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in the Imam Abbas shrine in the city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday Sept. 28, 2007.

Iraqi volunteers carry an unidentified body wrapped in a white sheet in the holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, Sept. 28, 2007.

Iraqi men look at books in the newly reopened book market of Al-Mutmabi, central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. The book market was destroyed on March 6, 2007, when a suicide car bomber turned the market into a deadly inferno killing at least 38 people.

U.S. Army soldiers of Alpha Company of 1/38 Infantry Regiment run along a street during a mopping-up operation to search and secure the area in Baquba, some 30 miles northeast of Baghdad, September 27, 2007.

An Iraqi girl drinks water from a faucet at a camp for around 75 displaced Shiite families in the Sadiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007.

An Iraqi policeman is seen through the wreckage of a car bomb attack on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007, in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad al-Jidida in Baghdad, Iraq. The attack killed at least one civilian and wounded two others. The blast came one day after a wave of bombings and shootings that has swept Iraq, killing at least 50 people and raising fears that al Qaeda had launched a promised new offensive.

U.S. Army soldiers of Alpha Company, 1/38 Infantry Regiment, take up positions during a mopping-up operation to search and secure an area in Baquba, some 30 miles northeast of Baghdad, Thursday, September 27, 2007.

A U.S. soldier from Alpha Company of 1/38 Infantry Regiment guards Iraqi detainees awaiting questioning at an Army combat outpost outside Baquba, some 30 miles northeast from Baghdad, early Wednesday, September 26, 2007.

A U.S. soldier from Alpha Company of 1/38 Infantry Regiment inspects weapons that were confiscated during an overnight operation outside Baquba, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007, by the U.S. Army registered local protection force the Concerned Local Nationalists (CLN).

Iraqis gather Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, at the scene of a bomb attack in a Baquba mosque, northeast of Baghdad. At least 28 people were killed and 34 wounded in the devastating attack the day before by a suicide bomber inside the mosque near Iraq's restive city of Baquba.

An Iraqi soldier stands guard after a suicide car bomber killed three Iraqi policemen when he blew up his vehicle outside the police headquarters in the southern city of Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007.

A man grieves for his brother, Ahmed Abbas, following his burial in the Shiite holy city Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. The man was killed along with two others by a U.S. air strike in the Diyala province on Sunday, his family said.

Ali Saadoun al-Daami grieves for his brother, slain journalist Jawad Saadoun al-Daami, outside the morgue at al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. Al-Dammi, a Shiite who worked for the Iraqi television station al-Baghdadiyah, was gunned down in Baghdad's western Qadisiyah neighborhood on Sunday.

Iraqis examine a vehicle destroyed in an overnight raid by U.S. troops in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. Police said U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by helicopters raided the east Baghdad neighborhood, killing the man, injuring his wife and arresting four.

Iraqi soldiers check a wrecked car at the site of a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. A car bomb attack targeted the convoy of a local mayor leaving one dead and several injured.

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