In pictures: Year in pictures 2008

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that the British mission in Iraq will end no later than 31 May, 2009, but US forces look set to stay until 2011. Here two US soldiers help a man who was wounded when he ran from a patrol in Baghdad.
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