An Iraqi soldier claws his way through the mud as he navigates an obstacle course as part of the selection process to become a member of the Iraqi Special Operations Force. The obstacle course has all types of tasks for soldiers to overcome including a rope climb, a belly crawl under barbed wire and through a mud hole as well as other physical elements.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)
