Pictures of my deployment to Iraq I gathered from people I was with.  No particular order, no names shown.

Typical street checkpoint in Mosul. The Iraqi national police (in blue camo) are the ones who did all the actual checking, we just served as backup in case they were attacked.
Edit: To answer the main questions I've been asked, these are all from 2004-2009, I was a 19D, and most civilians didn't mind that we were there. The city of 1.5 million people had an average of 33 IED attacks a week when we took over (mostly against civilians and non-military government agencies), and that was down to just 6 a week when we left.

IED blast

Abrams pulling an observation post

Hellfire hitting thhrough NVG

View from the driver's seat of an Abrams firing

IED blast from the air

And from the ground. Buried too deep, went up instead of out.

Abrams gun sight view

Downtown Mosul

The Saddam Mosque, Mosul. ISIS was using it as a VBIED/IED factory in 2016

Another market street, Mosul.

Prescription ballistic glasses meant the guy on the left looked like a dork all the time.

When the rainy season hit the whole city flooded for about a week,

Oldtown Mosul. This is a normal street there, barely room for a donkey cart. And these wider streets marked off the edges of neighborhoods.

And that's an open sewer down the middle of the street there. The area predates city-wide sanitation.

that orange and white car is a taxi. Some days every third call would be one, and we'd get warnings to "Be on the look out for a potential VBIED, in an orange & white car" It was a little nerve-wracking.

We had different reporters along with us for most of our deployment, though I think most of them were from New Zealand and Australia.

One of our platoons decided to cross a drainage creek, instead of using the bridges. They didn't make it across all the way. Remember the open sewers earlier? Guess what that black stuff is.

The tow hooks they had to tie the cables on to were under all that junk. I think there was some industrial sewage in there too. Everyone who had to get in it burned their uniforms afterwards, and they burned green on a normal wood fire.

They thought they could cross that creek because it was pretty narrow. And one bradley did make it, but it wasn't firm enough for all of them.

Within the neighborhoods of Oldtown, this was the average street size.

One of our scout platoons had a near miss from an IED. Light concussions all around.

A dust storm blowing in during a random security stop.

Another truck that hit an IED. They managed to take off a good portion of the rear axle. Concussions and tinnitus for all.

A Kiowa attack helicopter. They were our second choice, as the Apaches could hit more accurately, and from further away.

The Tigris hydroelectric dam north of Mosul

The hydroelectric dam again.

The only time our mortars got to fire their tubes was at the test range in Kuwait.

This was a dumb mistake. the spare roadwheel wasn't tied down and flew off, destroying this car. The driver was reimbursed for it.

Destroying an old mine, without EOD.

This is the troop section of a cavalry bradley, the troop screen is currently showing the driver's thermal camera. It could be switched to the gunner's view or the commander's optic, but not the GPS map for some reason.

Cleaning up the aftermath of a VBIED. We missed Thanksgiving dinner because of this.

Investigating an IED crater.