A Turkish army Super Cobra helicopter returns from a combat mission in northern Iraq to its base in Cukurca in Hakkari province at the Turkey-Iraq border, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008, Turkish F-16 fighters and helicopters flew into northern Iraq on Sunday as elite commandos shake Kurdish rebels in a major ground operation across the border that has drawn criticism from the U.S.-backed-Iraqi government and Iraqi Kurdish leaders.
A Turkish army Black Hawk helicopter takes off from a military base en route for Iraq in Cukurca in Hakkari province at the Turkey-Iraq border, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008, Turkish F-16 fighters and helicopters flew into northern Iraq on Sunday as elite commandos shake Kurdish rebels in a major ground operation across the borderth at has drawn criticism from the U.S.-backed-Iraqi government and Iraqi Kurdish leaders.
Iraqi policemen stand around the body of a gunman killed an attack on a checkpoint yesterday in Saqlawiyah, 75 kilometers (45 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Feb. 24, 2008. On Saturday a group of gunmen attacked the checkpoint killing one police officer. Then three of the attackers armed with explosives belts stormed the checkpoint, two blowing themselves up and killing Sheik Ibrahim Mutayri al-Mohamaday, the leader of the Awakening Council in Saqlawiyah.
Iraqi street vendors lay out clothes for sale on a pavement in central Baghdad on February 19, 2008. They are teachers, artists and military officers but in a country where the economy is in chaos, thousands of Iraqi professionals are living hand to mouth and relying on small jobs to survive.
Armed Kurdish men walk through the mountains near the Iraq-Turkey border in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region on February 24, 2008. The Iraqi government pushed Ankara today to withdraw its troops from northern Iraq, after the Turkish army warned Iraqi Kurds not to shelter Kurdish rebels fleeing its offensive in the region.
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