Sources: Xinhua
Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi orders the elite Counter-Terrorism Service to quell the protests in the capital Baghdad and the southern city of Nasiriya. 2019-10-26
During a visit to Baghdad, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces that the United States will be sending more troops to the country to help in the fight against ISIL. The U.S. also plans to give Kurdish Peshmerga forces, which are fighting ISIL on the ground, more than $400m (£280m; €350m) in assistance. 2016-04-18
Suicide bombers targeting police and local officials in Rawa, northwest of Baghdad, kill 15 people. 2013-10-20
At least 14 people are killed and 106 others wounded in two successive bombings at a popular market on the northern outskirts of Baghdad. 2012-06-22
Iraqi insurgency: A series of explosions occur in mainly Shia Muslim neighbourhoods of Baghdad and in the city of Nasiriyah, with at least 73 killed and 149 wounded. 2012-01-5
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Prime Minister of the United Nations-backed Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, calls on UN agencies basing themselves in Kenya for safety reasons to move to Mogadishu within three months, citing the presence of UN agencies in "more dangerous" cities such as Kabul and Baghdad. 2011-04-5
The death toll from the suicide bombing of a cafe in the Diyala Governorate near Baghdad, Iraq reaches 22. 2010-10-29
At least 26 people are killed and 53 other are injured during two car bombings in central Baghdad, Iraq. 2010-06-20
The Iranian ambassador in Baghdad says the recent release of two Iranians from Iraqi custody is not an indication of any impeding deal to free three Americans held in Tehran on spying charges since their capture in July 2009 while hiking in northern Iraq's mountainous Kurdish region. 2010-06-1