IRAQ WAR, 10 years on
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It has been ten years since the Unites States of America launched its invasion of Iraq that overthrew the regime of Saddam Hussein.
The country has been the scene of bitter battles and bloodshed for years, but the poignant photos you will see here show how life has moved on for Iraqis.
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IRAQ WAR, 10 years on
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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Ferries used to smuggle crude, weapons and people in the mayhem that followed the 2003 overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein have been transformed into floating cafes as the shore of the Shatt al-Arab waterway reclaims its role as a nightlife hotspot.
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The marshes were drained of water, and hundreds of thousands of Marsh Arabs were forced to flee to cities, where they live in poverty, the locals in this area said.
Click on NEXT to see what Iraq looks like today!Photographs: Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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A widow works on a sewing machine at her house in Baghdad's Sadr city.
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Photographs: Kareem Raheem/Reuters
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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Photographs: Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters
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Children drive motorised floats in a pool during Eid-al-Adha festival, at a park on Abu Nawas street in Baghdad.
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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Photographs: Saad Shalash/Reuters
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A woman sells legumes at a market in Baghdad's Sadr City.
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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Iraqi police vehicles patrol the highway in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, September 24, 2007. Only six months ago, many Iraqi travellers considered it a suicidal risk to take the insurgent-controlled desert highway that stretches from Baghdad to neighbouring Syria and Jordan.
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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Photographs: Julie Adnan/Reuters
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Photographs: Mushtaq Muhammed/Reuters
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People dance at a nightclub in Baghdad in 2009. Initially there were efforts by authorities, clergy and unknown bands of neighbourhood enforcers to police morals by shutting nightclubs, bars and other establishments that heightened concerns among academics and intellectuals that Iraq, now emerging from war, was displaying the tendencies of a hard-line Islamic state.
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Photographs: Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters
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In 2007, in a blow felt deeply by Iraq's intelligentsia, a car bomb killed 26 people here. Now, the street is again open, guarded and seemingly safe, and jammed every Friday with students, professors and professionals. The street begins, overlooking the Tigris, at a statue of Mutanabi, a 10th century poet and one of the towering figures of Arabic literature.
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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A customer shops for clothes at a clothing store in Baghdad's Karrada district
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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Photographs: Atef Hassan/Reuters
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Boys play computer games in an internet cafe in Baghdad.
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Photographs: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
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Photographs: Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters
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