In pictures: Baghdad Awakenings


Thanksgiving feast

Cooks prepare an Iftar meal to break the daily fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

People are profoundly relieved fighting has stopped here.

One side felt they had been taken hostage, the other that they had been infiltrated, both by extremists from outside the community.

"We didn't attack our brothers, it was the militias," said one man.

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