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	Afghanistan Syria Locations

	Mosul: A City Still at War
	Mosul is a devastated cityscape. Soldiers, deployed on the restive east side, still man bleak outposts, crouched behind machine guns and scarred blast shields, fingers on triggers. While the US military celebrates newfound stability elsewhere in Iraq, bombings, shootings and kidnappings remain commonplace here.

	Change
	The powerful elite that monopolised oil-rich Iraqi Kurdistan for two decades was delivered a shock in the July 2009 elections. For the first time, voters turned out in large numbers to support a new political party, one promising change.

	Kut Central Prison
	Inside Iraq's detention centers, where "fairness isn’t high on the list of priorities.”

	Sons of Iraq
	Portraits of insurgents turned peace-keepers in the 'triangle of death'.

	An Awakening in the 'Triangle of Death'
	How an uneasy calm came to settle over one of Iraq's most dangerous regions.

	The 101st
	Soldiers of the 101st Airborne stationed in the 'triangle of death'.