Iraq's Fragile Progress

Two Perspectives
Photographer van Lohuizen traveled to Iraq with two veterans of the war — from very different professions. Deputy international editor Bobby Ghosh, left, was TIME's Baghdad bureau chief for five years. Nate Rawlings, walking beside him in the city book market in this photo, is a graduate student at Columbia University who interned at TIME this summer — and served two terms in Iraq as a captain in the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division.

• TIME's Return to Baghdad Series