The Iraqi civil war was an armed conflict from 2006 to 2008 between various sectarian Shia and Sunni armed groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Mahdi Army, in addition to the Iraqi govern
A city street in Ramadi heavily damaged by the fighting in 2006
Aftermath of a car bombing in Baghdad in December 2007
The Sons of Iraq, also known as al-Sahwah, were a coalition in the Al Anbar governorate in Iraq between Sunni tribal leaders as well as former Saddam-era Iraqi military officers that united in 2005 ag
Iraqi police affiliated with the Sons of Iraq in Ramadi