From the frontlines: Sean Smith's war photographs – in pictures

Tomb of the Unknown Martyr, Baghdad: Soldiers mark the 12th anniversary of the 1991 US missile attack on Al Amiriya in which hundreds of people died, 2003
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

A child dresses in an Iraqi army uniform (the US bombing had begun 11 days earlier), Baghdad, 2003
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

A child recovers a pet rabbit from his bomb-damaged neighbourhood in Baghdad, 2003
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

Baghdad, Iraq: Felicia Harris, a US soldier, poses in the master bedroom of one of Uday Hussein's houses in Saddam Hussein's presidential compound, 2003
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

A woman is caught in the fighting between US marines and insurgents as part of Operation Steel Curtain, Ubaydi, Iraq, 2005
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

Aitaroun, Lebanon: Villagers, who for weeks have been trapped by fighting, flee during a lull in hostilities, 2006
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

Ali Sha'ita, 12, comforts his mother in the wake of an Israeli air attack on the vehicle in which he and his family were fleeing the village of Et Tiri, Lebanon, 2006
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

US soldiers from the Second Stryker respond to an IED attack on a Bradley fighting vehicle, which killed six US soldiers and a translator in the Sunni neighbourhood of Al-A'amiriya, Iraq, 2007
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

US marines sweep for weapons and insurgents in Al Anbar province, Iraq, 2007
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

Marines conduct house-to-house searches in a Sunni neighbourhood in west Baghdad, 2007
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

Nawa, Afghanistan: British soldiers from the Mercian Regiment relax, as bemused locals look on, 2009
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

A young Afghan police recruit, Gereshk, Helmand, 2006
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

Congo: A government soldier holds a rocket-propelled grenade launcher near Kibati, 2008
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian