THE TENSION: Combat Camera: U.S. and Iraqi Security Forces Clear Baqubah Neighborhood

Soldiers assigned to, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, occupy an empty building in a neighborhood of Baqubah, as Stryker vehicles move into position Sept. 20. Alpha Company Soldiers recently cleared all homes in the neighborhood, searching for insurgents and weapons caches. Photographer: 1st Lt. Richard Ybarra, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

A Soldier from 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, searches a home in a Baqubah neighborhood, known as "Mexico" Sept. 20. Soldiers swept the homes for insurgents or weapons caches. Photographer: 1st Lt. Richard Ybarra, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

American and Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi policemen move from house to house in Baqubah, searching for insurgents or weapons caches Sept. 20. The soldiers cleared the entire neighborhood, referred to as "Mexico." Photographer: 1st Lt. Richard Ybarra, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

Staff Sgt. Yair Cardona examines a map after searching a home in the neighborhood of Baqubah known as "Mexico" Sept. 20. American Soldiers, along with Iraqi soldiers and policed cleared the entire neighborhood, taking sporadic fire from an isolated sniper. Photographer: 1st Lt. Richard Ybarra, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

Staff Sgt. Yair Cardona peers through the window of an abandoned building in an attempt to locate a sniper firing on fellow Soldiers Sept. 20. Coalition forces recently cleared the neighborhood of Baqubah, known as "Mexico," searching for weapons caches and insurgents. Photographer: 1st Lt. Richard Ybarra, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment