Ex-POW Army Spc Shoshana Johnson flashes a victory sign as she is carried on a stretcher onto a C17 military plane enroute to Fort Bliss, Texas, at US Air Base in Ramstein, southern Germany. Together with six other POWs, she was rescued April 13 in Iraq and then taken for medical treatment to Landstuhl Medical Center.
U.S. Marines stand guard on top of a vehicle, covering a convoy of army vehicles leaving the capital city of Baghdad.
Patients peer out of their room at the Al Rashad psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Baghdad. The asylum was looted by a mob of Iraqis, and the facility has been abandoned by doctors and nurses. Some patients in this hospital were reportedly raped as looters ransacked the building over a three-day spree, the International Red Cross said April 17.
Soldiers of the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division take cover as shots are fired at the direction of their camp in Tikrit, Iraq. No one was apprehended after the incident.
Iraqis suspected of looting are kept behind a barbed wire fence set up by U.S. forces in an amusement park in Baghdad. The U.S. forces detain suspected looters in a park that is also home to Baghdad's zoo, holding suspects for a few hours and then releasing them.
A female fighter of the Mujahedin Khalq (MKO) stands guard at a gate outside their main base at Camp Ashraf, Iraq, 100 kms north of Baghdad. The fall of Saddam Hussein's regime has raised the question of what will happen to the heavily armed Iranian opposition group that has operated on Iraqi soil for years.
Iraqi youngsters play with an abandoned Iraqi tank in the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq.
A Iraqi who declined to be identified lies in the emergency room of Al Kindi hospital in the capital city of Baghdad. The man came to have the wound of his amputated arm cleaned.
Iraqi demonstrators chant anti-U.S. and pro-Islamic slogans during a protest march against the United States following Muslim prayers in central Baghdad. Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated against the U.S. occupation of Iraq on April 18, the second Muslim day of prayer since the regime's collapse.
A military honor guard carries the casket with the body of Army Sgt. Henry Brown of Natchez, Miss., out of the hearse following funeral services at the Natchez Convention Center. Brown, killed in Baghdad, while serving in the war, held the rank of corporal with the Army's HHC 2nd Brigade Command Group when he died on April 8. The 22-year-old was posthumously promoted to sergeant.