U.S. Secretary of State Rice visits Iraq
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-05-16 09:58

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) and Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari meet with reporters in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone May 15, 2005. Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq on Sunday to discuss how to fight the escalating insurgency.[Reuters]

Escorted by armed guards, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives for a meeting with Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani (R) in the northern city of Salahuddin, just north of Arbil.[AFP]

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wears earmuffs as she sits in the cockpit of a C-17 US military plane which flew in from Qatar to the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil where she met with Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani. [AFP]