Wounded Iraqis cope with lifelong scars
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For generations to come, Iraqis will have to cope with the physical and mental scars of tens of thousands of people severely injured in the violence of the past four years.
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The trauma of the 7 July London bombings has left emotional scars for 80% of survivors, a report says.
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A U.S. soldier who served in Iraq was so moved by the story of Youssif he had to do something.
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The nightmares won't stop. In one, fighters chase him with a gun. In another, he watches a person get mutilated. In a third, someone is hacking his neck with a machete. Yet, years after he left the life of a child soldier in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah has found a reason for hope in his vivid nocturnal visions: He never dies.
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When the members of a National Guard unit finally returned from Iraq in July, they were met with tears, hugs and signs reading "Welcome home." But for some, the return hasn't been easy after living so long with the camaraderie of their unit, the structure of military life and the dangers of war.
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Almost a year ago, an Iraqi boy named Youssif was doused with gasoline and set on fire, leaving him horribly disfigured. A California doctor volunteered to help. Now, Youssif can smile again. "Sometimes the situation you're presented with gets you right in the heart, " the doctor said.
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"Ever seen someone have their chest cracked," one of the medics asked me on my first day in a combat hospital here in Iraq.
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A year after coming home from Iraq, AJ Jefferson is still fighting the war in eerie nightmares about the bomb that left him and two comrades seriously wounded. The 21-year-old soldier was diagnosed severe post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. Now he is re-running the attack in his nightmares. "I have the dreams every night," he said. "My brain will not let go of it."
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by JEREMY REDMON of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Mosul, Iraq. Two GIs desperately carry their wounded buddy between them, dragging him from the shattered remains of what had been a bustling mess hall in Iraq.
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Virtual Iraq is a simulation created to treat Iraq war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Children and their families, shattered by war, find care for devastating wounds in Jordan.
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By Omar Sinan and Kathy Gannon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  HALABJA, Iraq -- These are bitter times in the town that Saddam Hussein gassed.  It's painful enough that many people still suffer the aftereffects of nerve and mustard gas nearly 20 years ago.
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QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq -- Sunrise came to the women's camp in shafts of white light through woven roofs, but Aristan Manzur slept past 10. She had a fever again, and fluid blocked the air in her lungs.
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At times, they feared for their lives. They spent many days with blindfolds pressed against their eyes. Their Iraqi captors were convinced they were spies or proselytizers of Catholicism.
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A look at the difficulties some Iraqis can face in trying to escpape their violent homeland.
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Keith Greene remembers the sandstorms, the swirling red clouds that left grit in everything. Joe Goellner recounts building schools for Iraqi children. Raffi Bahadarian describes fighting to help protect his comrades.
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With casualties in Iraq hitting a record two-month high, the question is how long Americans' patience will last