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  • Marines and members of the Zobai Tribe set up solar powered water unit near Fallujah. Sun Powers Fallujah Water Purification Units

    The hot, dusty air erupts with shouts and laughter as a young Iraqi man holds a bottle to capture the water splashing from a hose connected to a strange-looking device. They’re cheering in this village just east of Fallujah because that small stream means these villagers, will have clean, inexpensive drinking water.

  • Wall relief in the Northwest Palace at Nimrud (Ancient Calah) Wall relief in the Northwest Palace at Nimrud

    The joint assessment of cultural sites in northern Iraq took Cultural Heritage Officer Diane Siebrandt and team to several archaeological sites. Here a colossal wall relief in the Northwest Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II (884 BC-859 BC) at Nimrud (Calah), the second capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, is on display.

  • Hellenistic Temple in Hatra (al-Hadhar) Hellenistic Temple in Hatra (al-Hadhar)

    Ninewa Province, May 17 - May 24. Here members from Embassy Baghdad, PRT Mosul, the local Iraqi Army Unit, FPS guards and U.S. Military support team pose in front of the Hellenistic Temple in Hatra (al-Hadhar) which flourished between the first century BC and the second century AD.

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