Sources: AP via NZ Stuff
Nine soldiers are killed and nine more wounded in a raid on suspected ISIL militants in Baghdad. 2016-05-18
Two explosions in Baghdad kill at least 13 people and injure dozens. 2015-05-2
A major Switzerland based commodities firm, Trafigura, played a "pivotal" role in the ability of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq to export oil, exports that the central government in Baghdad has prohibited. 2014-12-2
Sunni militants and the Iraqi Army clash west of Baghdad, Iraq leaving 4 children dead. 2014-08-14
A suicide bomber kills 23 Iraqi army recruits and wounds 36 in Baghdad. 2014-01-9
Bombs targeting two Sunni mosques in Baghdad, Iraq, kill seven people. 2013-09-27
At least 11 people are killed and more than 30 are wounded in bomb attacks at Sunni mosques in Baghdad and in the province of Diyala. 2013-04-12
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
At least 5 people are killed due to back-to-back afternoon bombings at a vegetable market south of Baghdad. In Iskandariyah, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Baghdad, also wounded at least 20 people. 2010-10-7
Dozens of people are killed and more than 100 others are wounded by a series of bomb explosions in Baghdad, mostly near Shia mosques around the time of Jumu'ah 2010-04-23