Ten Years Of Change Since Invasion Of Iraq

Left: Smoke covers the presidential palace in Baghdad during a massive U.S.-led air raid on March 21, 2003.
Right: A night view of Baghdad's Fardoos Square taken from the rooftop of the Hotel Palestine on February 9, 2013.

Left: Schoolgirls walk past U.S. tanks on November 5, 2003, in the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib.
Right: Women and kids ride in a rubber dinghy at an amusement park on February 4, 2013.

Left: A female U.S. soldier searches a Kurdish Iraqi woman at a checkpoint on October 25, 2004, in Ramadi.
Right: An armed guard stands in front of models during a convention of hairdressers and make-up artists on February 9, 2013.

Left: A man drives a beat up car in Baghdad on October 24, 2003.
Right: A stunt rider on his motorbike during a motor show on February 8, 2013.

Left: A Shi'ite cleric and member of radical leader Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army watches an anti-U.S. rally on April 7, 2004.
Right: The same cleric poses at his home, decorated with a poster of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, on February 5, 2013.

Left: U.S. soldiers arrest several close allies of President Saddam Hussein during a raid on their house on March 20, 2003.
Right: A bride sits in a car decorated for her wedding on February 7, 2013.

Left: A U.S. marine blindfolds a suspected insurgent on November 12, 2004, in Fallujah.
Right: A blindfolded Iraqi hairdresser competes on stage during a hairdressers' festival in Baghdad on February 9, 2013.

Left: Men walk past posters of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein outside a billboard factory on October 17, 2002.
Right: A man prays in his shop selling carpets depicting Imam Hussein, revered by Shi'ite Muslims, on February 2, 2013, on Baghdad's Rashid Street.

Left: A girl drives a makeshift bumper car on February 16, 1998, during the UN embargo imposed on Iraq.
Right: A woman drives a bumper car at an amusement park on February 4, 2013.

Left: Men who have volunteered to defend Iraq train at a military camp for the Iraqi special forces on March 12, 2003.
Right: Women walk past the tomb of two unidentified Arab fighters buried in the Martyrs' Cemetery in Baghdad's Adhamiyah neighborhood, a Sunni stronghold, on February 13, 2013.

Left: A reflection of women is seen in the glass covering a photograph of Saddam Hussein on January 25, 2003.
Right: Women are reflected in a mirror displayed by a street vendor on February 4, 2013, in Baghdad's central Karrada neighborhood.

Left: A car burns outside the UN headquarters in eastern Baghdad after a huge explosion rocked the building n August 19, 2003, killing at least 22 people, including UN special representative for Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello.
Right: Baghdad on March 15, 2013, a day after militants staged an apparently unsuccessful assault. A coordinated string of bombings and an assault on the Justice Ministry killed 18 people, in the Iraqi capital's deadliest violence this month.