Iraq Photos: <br>June 27 -- July 3

A masked Iraqi soldier arrives at the scene of an attack after a parked-car bomb exploded near a police station in the New Baghdad section of Baghdad, Iraq, July 2, 2005. In the background are U.S. soldiers who arrived to help secure the area.

U.S. Marines ride in amphibious assault vehicles during the fourth day of Operation Sword in Hit, 125 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 2, 2005. U.S. and Iraqi forces announced Saturday they will establish bases in the city and maintain a constant presence.

Iraqi soldiers patrol alongside an American Humvee during the fourth day of Operation Sword in Hit, 125 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 2, 2005.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Anthony Weber of Columbus, Ohio, walks past a shuttered storefront advertising the video game machine Play Station, during a foot patrol in Hit, 125 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, July 1, 2005. U.S. Marines conducting Operation Sword are encouraging people to come out of their homes after completing house-to-house searches earlier in the week.

U.S. Marine Sgt. Phillip Jolly of Columbus, Ohio, leads men from his squad on a foot patrol through Hit, 125 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, July 1, 2005.

An Iraqi man pulls a garbage can to clean up the debris on the street at the site of a suicide car-bomb attack at a checkpoint outside the offices of Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's Islamic Dawa Party, July 1, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq.

Iraqi security stand guard next to debris left on the street at the site of a suicide car-bomb attack at a checkpoint outside the offices of Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's Islamic Dawa Party, July 1, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq.

A U.S. Marine helicopter circles over the town of Hit, 125 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, June 30, 2005. Operation Sword, with more than 1,000 U.S. troops and Iraqi forces, aims to crush insurgents and foreign fighters in western Iraq and is the third major offensive in the area in recent weeks. It started June 27.

U.S. Marines Lance Cpl. Rolland Ogle, left, of Logan, Ohio, and Lance Cpl. Eric Neighbarger of St. Louisville, Ohio, walk down a street in Hit, 125 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, June 29, 2005.

Cpl. Stefan Arnold, right, watches over a cemetery from the turret of his amphibious assault vehicle in Hit, 125 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, June 29, 2005. Operation Sword, with more than 1,000 U.S. troops and Iraqi forces, aims to crush insurgents and foreign fighters in western Iraq and is the third major offensive in the area in recent weeks.

U.S. Marines from Lima Company, Third Battalion, 25th Regiment, walk past a mosque in Hit, 125 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, June 29, 2005.

Armed mourners carry the coffins of Shiite legislator Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, his son, and two bodyguards during a funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, June 29, 2005.

A car burns in the street in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 28, 2005, after a suicide car bomber slammed into a convoy carrying Kirkuk traffic police chief Brig. Gen. Salar Ahmed, killing one of his bodyguards and a civilian. Four people were also wounded, including Ahmed and three of his bodyguards.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Cheston Bailon, center, of Shiprock, N.M., aims at an Iraqi man, while he and U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Paul Wolowiec, left, of Buffalo, N.Y., enter the man's house to search it, in Hit, about 125 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, June 28, 2005.

Iraqis surround the burned wreckage of cars after a suicide bomb attack killed Shiite legislator Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, his son, and two bodyguards near Baghdad, Iraq, June 28, 2005. The four were slain as they headed to a parliamentary session in the capital, officials said. Al-Fayadh, in his late 80s, was the eldest member of the new parliament.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Adam Griffin stands guard over a detainee in Hit, about 125 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, June 28, 2005. More than 1,000 U.S. troops and Iraqi forces have launched Operation Sword in a bid to crush insurgents and foreign fighters in western Iraq, making it the third major offensive in the area in recent weeks.

Lance Cpl. Rolland Ogle, left, of Logan, Ohio, Lance Cpl. Eric Neighbarger, center, of St. Louisville, Ohio, and Lance Cpl. Eric Weaver of Buffalo, N.Y., ride on top of their Amphibeous Assault Vehicle through Western Anbar Province, in Iraq, June 27, 2005.

Iraqis gather around wreckage after a car bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad, June 27, 2005. The bomb exploded near the Sunni Arab al-Samarraie mosque in the eastern district of New Baghdad. The area is packed with small shops and markets selling everything from vegetables to clothes and is usually crowded with people shopping in the early evening.

Iraqi soldiers pass by broken glass, blood, and pieces of cars lying in the street after a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, June 27, 2005. The attack, aimed at a passing Iraqi police patrol, killed two civilians and injured another, according to Iraqi police.

An Iraqi soldier looks at the remains of a car that was damaged in a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, June 27, 2005. The attack, aimed at a passing Iraqi police patrol, killed two civilians and injured another, according to Iraqi police.