Archive photo of the day
Two Shiite women walk along a highway in Baghdad, 2015
Stars and Stripes
October 21, 2024
(Josh Smith/Stars and Stripes )
Baghdad, Iraq, Apr. 22, 2015: Two Shiite women walk along a highway during a pilgrimage from Baghdad to shrines in the city of Samarra, April 22, 2015. Later that day a suicide car bomb went off next to a crowd of pilgrims as they were returning from Samarra, killing eight and wounding 16. At this time, suicide bombings were a nearly daily occurance for millions of Iraqis.
Stars and Stripes reporter and photographer Josh Smith wrote about life amidst the ever present violence in Iraqi’s capital in this 2015 article.