Life Returns to Iraq's Streets

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Yuri Kozyrev / Noor for TIME

Highway of Hope
A guard stands on the road leading to Baghdad's Bridge of the Imams, which links the Shi'ite neighborhood of Kadhamiya with the Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiya. Reopened in November, the bridge has been hailed as a symbol of healing wounds between the two sects.

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