Baquba

Photo: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty
A US soldier from Bravo Company, 1st Battallion, 38th Regiment Infantry, descends the stairs as he searches an Iraqi house for weapons and suspects during a morning patrol in the streets of Baquba, 27 November 2007. Seven Iraqis, among them three women and a child, were reported killed today by the US military, a day after Washington and Baghdad agreed to keep American forces in Iraq beyond 2008.
(via Andrew Sullivan)