Iraqi models share their pictures backstage during a hairdressers' and make-up artists' festival in Baghdad on Feb. 9, 2013. It was the first time that this kind of festival had taken place in the Iraqi capital since 1999.

A model taking part in the hairdressers' and make-up artists' festival.

An Iraqi bride sits in her wedding car on Feb. 7, 2013.

A waiter carries plates of Masgouf, a fish found in the Tigris river, as he serves clients in a restaurant on Baghdad's Abu Nuwas street late on Feb. 2, 2013.

Iraqi customers in a bar located on the rooftop of Baghdad's Hotel Palestine late on Feb. 9, 2013.

Iraqi hairdressers, one of them blindfolded, take part in a competition during a festival on Feb. 9, 2013.

A young man shows off on his motorbike during the Friday motor show in Baghdad's al-Jadriya district on Feb. 8, 2013.

An Iraqi cleans his 1958 Chrysler during the Friday motor show in al-Jadriya.

A woman uses her cellphone to take a picture of her friend at an amusement park in Baghdad's Abu Nuwas street on Feb. 4, 2013.

Neighbors react a day after a bomb blast on Zahra Shiite mosque in the Hurriya neighborhood of Baghdad on Nov. 28, 2012.

A man stands amid debris after a bomb attack in the Shuala district of Baghdad on November 28, 2012. The deadliest of three attacks occurred in the Shuala district, where a car bomb parked outside a Shiite place of worship exploded as people were leaving the building, killing nine.

Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in the Shuala district of Baghdad on Nov. 28, 2012.

Iraqi children play near bombed remains of vehicles in Khaldiya after a wave of coordinated attacks hit Iraq on June 13, 2012.

Iraqi men walk past the bombed remains of vehicles in Ramadi, after a wave of coordinated attacks.

People and security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.

Residents gather at the site of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, Iraq.

A man wounded in a bomb attack is treated at a hospital in Kerbala, Iraq.

A wounded woman is helped at the scene following a bomb attack in Baghdad, June 4. A suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car outside Iraq's main religious affairs office for Shiite Muslims on Monday, tearing down part of the three-story building.

A wounded man is helped from the scene after a bomb attack in Baghdad, June 4.

Civil defense personnel work at the site of a collapsed building that was the target of a bomb attack in Baghdad June 4. A powerful car bomb exploded outside a Shiite Muslim administration office in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 26 people and wounding around 60 more, just days after six coordinated blasts rocked the Iraqi capital.

An Iraqi policeman runs his metal detector over the coffin of Hussein Ahmed at a checkpoint as the body arrives for burial amid a sandstorm in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 19. Ahmed was killed in Baghdad in one of a wave of morning bombings across several cities on Thursday, killing and injuring dozens of Iraqis, police said, shattering weeks of calm in a reminder of the nation's continued insurgency. The Arabic writing notes that the coffin was donated in memory of a family's dead relative.

Enveloped by a sand storm Iraqis clear the debris following two car bombs in the western city of Ramadi, in the Anbar province on April 19, as a wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens more.

An Iraqi boy inspects a car destroyed in a car bombing in Baghdad's Haifa Street, as dust creates a yellow haze across the city, on April 19. A wave of apparently coordinated bombing and shooting attacks in six different provinces across Iraq killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 150, security officials said.

Residents inspect the site of a bomb attack in Baquba, 40 miles north of Baghdad, on April 19. More than 20 bombs hit cities and towns across Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 36 and wounding almost 150, police and hospital sources said, raising fears of sectarian strife in a country whose authorities are keen to show they can now maintain security.

General Lloyd Austin, Commander of US Forces in Iraq, retires the United States Forces Iraq flag during a casing ceremony on Dec. 15, 2011.

American soldiers look on as a military band performs after the flag casing ceremony on Dec. 15, 2011.

U.S. military personnel pose for a souvenir picture before the start of a ceremony marking the end of the U.S. military engagement in Iraq, at the former U.S. Sather Air Base near Baghdad on Dec. 15, 2011.

The US flag, the Iraqi flag, and the US Forces Iraq colors are carried, during a flag-lowering ceremony marking the end of the US mission in Iraq on Dec. 15, 2011.

US military personnel in Baghdad bow their heads during the flag-lowering ceremony on Dec. 15, 2011.

A U.S. soldier walks past cables for media use before the start of the ceremony on Dec. 15, 2011.

A street sweeper works in front of a blast wall on Dec. 9, 2011 in Baghdad. While violence has dropped dramatically in the city since the peak of the conflict in 2006-2007, around 60,000 blast wall sections remain in place.

People ride the Ferris wheel at Zawraa Park on Dec. 2, 2011 in Baghdad, Iraq. The 180-foot tall Ferris wheel opened earlier this year and is the second largest in the Middle East. Iraq is transitioning as the U.S. military continues its withdrawal from the country, planning to be completed by the end of December, following the war that began in 2003.

A teenager rollerblades at Zawraa Park on December 2, 2011 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Women walk past the train at Zawraa Park on Dec, 2, 2011 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Children are silhouetted as they play in a park across from the Green Zone on the Tigris River in Baghdad Dec. 2, 2011. The last 13,000 U.S. troops will pull out of Iraq by the end of the year.