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UPDATED: 18 Aug 2008 GMT
  • Photo of 3 men playing instruments Iraqi Nat'l Symphony Orchestra Performs in Baghdad

    Baghdad – Goodwill between the United States and Iraq could be heard literally as Iraq’s National Symphony Orchestra (INSO) performed American as well as Arab music for an enthusiastic U.S.- Iraqi audience at the Al Rasheed hotel July 26.

  • Photo of Tigers Bengal Tigers Make Baghdad Zoo Their New Home

    After traveling thousands of miles from the United States, two Bengal tiger cubs, called Hope and Riley, are making Iraq their new home thanks, in part, to a cooperative effort by Coalition Forces, the U.S. Embassy, Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) and Iraqi veterinarians to upgrade the Baghdad Zoo.

  • 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.

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After traveling thousands of miles from the United States, two Bengal tiger cubs, called Hope and Riley...

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Iraqi Nat'l Symphony Orchestra Performs in Baghdad
Goodwill between the United States and Iraq could be heard literally as Iraq’s National Symphony Orchestra


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