Iconic images from the Iraq War, 20 years after it began

A U.S. soldier watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad, April 9, 2003.more

An explosion rocks Baghdad during air strikes, March 21, 2003. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

An Iraqi girl holds her sister as she waits for her mother (R) to bring over food bought in Basra, March 29, 2more

A body of Iraqi man lies by the road side north of Al Nassiriyah, March 25, 2003. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

A US Army combat engineer, with Psalm 23 written on his kevlar, bows his head as he takes a short rest after smore

U.S. Marines from Lima Company, a part of a 7-th Marine Regiment, walk in front of the Martyrs Monument, durinmore

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds an Iraqi child in more

A detained Iraqi man with a plastic bag covering his head sits in garden of a house searched by U.S. soldiers more

Captain Christopher Fallon from Orlando, Florida, of the 1st battalion of the 22nd regiment of the fourth divimore

President George W. Bush delivers a speech to crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, declaringmore

A soldier of U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division (Task Force Ironhorse) searches through dense vegetation aroundmore

U.S. soldiers pray during a memorial service for late PFC Allen Brenton Jaynes from Texas, in the U.S. forces more

An Iraqi National Guardsman is comforted by soldiers after a colleague was killed in a gunfight with insurgentmore

An Iraqi detainee gestures toward U.S. soldiers through bars of his cell at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad,more

A frame grab taken from website video May 2004 footage shows a man, who identified himself as Nick Berg of Phimore

U.S. Marines kick in a door while securing a building next to the main hospital in central Baghdad, which willmore

A U.S. soldier and Iraqi policeman search a room as an Iraqi child sleeps on the bed during a joint raid by thmore

A row of U.S. Army helmets are perched on M-16 rifles during a memorial for the 15 victims of a Chinook helicomore

U.S. Marine platoon Gunnery Sergeant, Ryan P. Shane (C), from the 1st Battalion of the 8th Marine Regiment andmore

A bloodied insurgent sits blindfolded in an Iraqi police station after being captured during a morning battle more

Mays, a young Iraqi Shi'ite girl, cries after a mortar shell which landed outside the family's home in a Najafmore

A man looks at his wife and baby as he is searched by U.S. Army soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division at a more

A man looks at the shattered windshield of a car after a bomb attack outside a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, July 7more

A man runs down a street  warning people to flee shortly after a twin car bomb attack at Shorja market in Baghmore

An Iraqi girl holds her hands up while U.S. and Iraqi soldiers search her family house in Baquba, June 30, 200more

An Iraqi man suspected of having explosives in his car is held after being arrested by the U.S army near Baqubmore

British soldier jumps from a burning tank which was set ablaze after a shooting incident in the southern Iraqimore

A U.S. helicopter patrols the area around Baghdad, November 8, 2005. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

U.S. soldiers push the car of an Iraqi man to start the engine at a checkpoint in north Baghdad, June 13, 2007more

U.S. soldiers blindfold an Iraqi man after arresting him during a night patrol at the Zafraniya neighborhood, more

An Iraqi man holds the body of a boy after a car bomb explosion at a market in the neighborhood known as New Bmore

An Iraqi man unbuttons his shirt as U.S. soldiers point their laser sights on him during an operation near themore

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein argues with prosecutors while testifying during cross-examination at hismore

A U.S. soldier displays the picture of the dead Al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, during a news cmore

Footage from Al Iraqiya television shows masked executioners putting a noose around former Iraqi President Sadmore

Men try to push a vehicle away from the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad, April 5, 2007. REUTERS/Smore

An Iraqi man holds his hands up as U.S. soldiers and Iraqi special police search his house for weapons in Baqumore

Smoke rises near the Iraqi Ministry of Justice, shortly after a blast, in Baghdad, October 25, 2009. REUTERS/more

An Iraqi police officer checks a donkey, pulling a disabled man on a cart, before allowing it to enter a pollimore

A girl looks at a local resident manning a machinegun at a checkpoint in Baghdad's Adhamiya Sunni neighborhoodmore

An Iraqi baby lies in a cradle while a woman argues with U.S. soldiers of 1/8 Bravo Company searching for weapmore

Relatives grieve as the bodies of policemen are transported to a hospital morgue in Kirkuk, August 12, 2007. more

Sgt. Joseph Crandell of the U.S. 1st Armored Divison holds his seven month old daughter Lena for the first timmore

Iraqi police remove a suicide vest from a teenage Iraqi girl in Baquba, August 24, 2008. REUTERS/Iraqi Policmore

A soldier of the Iraqi army elite mobile 3rd Brigade 1st Division holds a ladder for his comrade at an abandonmore

U.S. soldiers stand near the Swords of Qadisiyah monument in Baghdad, March 13, 2008. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

An Iraqi woman reacts as men are taken out of a house and detained by U.S. soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armore

A resident gestures as he talks to a U.S. soldier from 2nd Brigade combat team, 82nd Airborne on patrol in Bagmore

A U.S. soldier waves to residents at the newly-opened Mithaq swimming pool in Baghdad's Sadr City, August 30, more

Iraqi soldiers look at a former colleague as he runs with a new prosthetic leg during the opening of an Iraqi more

Laura Youngblood, widow of U.S. Navy Petty Officer Travis L. Youngblood, touches his grave stone while visitinmore

Residents mourn as they wait to claim bodies of bomb attack victims outside a morgue in Baghdad, August 17, 20more

An Iraqi boy is taken away from a suspected militant, who has been accused of killing his father at the heightmore

A line of Strykers convoy as part of the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division's last patrol more

U.S. Air Force Major Stacie Shafran carries her luggage to a loading paddock while waiting for her departure fmore