Word: kozyrev
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...Maliki, engaging government forces in open warfare. Loyalists to Mahdi Army leader Muqtada al-Sadr (who once participated in al-Maliki's government) openly despise the Prime Minister, whose soldiers came out on top in the confrontation. (See pictures of Iraq amid the 2006-07 crisis by photographer Yuri Kozyrev...
...Iraqi capital's streets were empty, allowing our convoy to speed past collapsed buildings, concrete barriers and sleeping soldiers at checkpoints. By day, these streets would be clogged with traffic, and we'd be tense over the risk of explosions. Instead, we were unbridled, free, giddy. TIME photographer Yuri Kozyrev has been covering Iraq since before the U.S. invasion. He had already been to Basra three times, but the last time he had driven like this, in a "soft"--unarmored--car and without the protection of the U.S. military, was in late 2003. Earlier this year, the route we were...
...sectarian war of 2006 have not been tamed. One thing that hasn't changed in Baghdad is the commitment of our Iraqi staff there, marshaled by the indomitable bureau manager Ali al-Shaheen. They are the front lines of support for our rotating cast of reporters: photographers Yuri Kozyrev and Franco Pagetti and correspondents Brian Bennett, Mark Kukis, Charles Crain and Abigail Hauslohner...
...Year of the Surge For more of Yuri Kozyrev's photographs from Iraq, go to time.com/surge...
...Kozyrev's pictures from Baghdad for TIME magazine will appear at the Visa pour l'Image Photojournalism Festival in September in honor of its 20th anniversary