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• Jan. 1: U.S., right, and Iraqi soldiers, left, shake hands after the ceremony in which Iraqi forces took control of the Joint Security Station in Ghazaliyah, in Baghdad, Iraq.
• Jan. 1: U.S. and Iraqi soldiers salute during a ceremony in which Iraqi forces took control of the Joint Security Station in Ghazaliyah, in Baghdad, Iraq.
• Jan. 1: Iraqi army band plays during a handover ceremony the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq.
• Jan. 1: Major Gen. Andy Salmon, commander, Multi-National Division-Southeast, speaks joined by Iraqi officials as the British forces handed the Basra airport to the Iraqi authorities, in Basra, Iraq. Britain will withdraw forces from Iraq by July this year.
• Jan. 1: U.S. and Iraqi soldiers raise Iraq's flag during a ceremony in which Iraqi forces took control of the Joint Security Station in Ghazaliyah, in Baghdad, Iraq.
• Jan. 1: U.S. Col. Steven Ferrari, a commander of the Joint Area Support Group Baghdad shakes hands with Brigadier Emad Yaseen, commander of the Iraqi Army's Baghdad Brigade, during a hand-over ceremony at the Geen Zone in Baghdad, Iraq.
• Jan. 1: An Iraqi and a U.S. soldier stand guard at a checkpoint at an entrance to the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq.