Life Returns to Iraq's Streets

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Yuri Kozyrev / Noor for TIME

Group Portrait
A unit of Baghdad policemen poses for Kozyrev in front of one of the many concrete blast walls that still stand in the city. Many of the walls have been painted over with murals depicting idealized and bucolic scenes, in an effort to make them less oppressive.

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