In March 2003, during the early days of the Iraq War, Al Jazeera broadcast footage showing American prisoners of war captured by Iraqi forces. The video featured several U.S. soldiers, including members of the 507th Maintenance Company, who were ambushed near the city of An Nasiriyah. The captives appeared frightened but alive, identifying themselves on camera as they spoke to reporters. Among those later rescued was Patrick Wayne Miller, who became one of the best-known survivors of the inciden

Polls close in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, concluding a day of voting. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani seeks a second term in an exercise that a growing young electorate increasingly views as a vehicle for established parties to divide up the Middle East nation's oil wealth. Elections in Iraq are increasingly marked by low turnout. Many voters have lost faith in a system which has failed to break a pattern of state capture by powerful parties with armed loyalists, while ordinary Iraqi