BAGHDAD - Lt. Col. Christopher Beckert (foreground), a native of Madison, Conn., deputy commanding officer, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad sits alongside tribal and religious leaders at a meeti...

BAGHDAD - Col. Joseph Martin (center), a native of Dearborn, Mich., commander, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad stands among tribal and religious leaders from northwest Baghdad following a meetin...

BAGHDAD - Sheik Muhammad Bakr al-Suhayil, of Kadhamiyah, Sheik Mahmoud Ali al-Falahi, of the Hurriyah neighborhood and Sheik Majid Abd al-Hamid al-Janabi, Jamia/Adl Support Council chairman, share a laugh while discussing the recent provincial electi...

BAGHDAD - Col. Joseph Martin(right), a native of Dearborn, Mich., commander, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Multi-National Division- Baghdad, sits alongside Abdul Kareem Nusaif, Karkh, Tribal Support Council chairman, while spe...