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A suicide bomber detonates a pick-up truck full of explosives at a busy street in northern Baghdad, killing at least nine people.
2017-02-15

Two separate car bombs explode in Baghdad, killing at least 20 people.
2016-06-9

A suicide bomber kills at least nine people at a Shi'ite mosque in southwestern Baghdad. A second attacker was shot dead by security forces before he could detonate his explosives.
2016-04-22

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

Three Americans abducted last month in Baghdad are freed by the Iraqi National Intelligence Service.
2016-02-16

Three Americans are missing, feared kidnapped, in Baghdad. Several unconfirmed reports claim that they were kidnapped by a shi'ite militant group.
2016-01-17

At least 51 people are reportedly killed in an attack on a shopping centre in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, and a car bombing outside an illegal casino in Miqdadiyah, east of Baghdad, with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claiming responsibility for both attacks.
2016-01-11

At least 21 people are killed in multiple attacks in Baghdad with more than 70 others injured.
2015-09-17

ISIL bombings kill 21 and wound more than 100 others in Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad.
2015-08-15

2014 Mosul offensive: Insurgents continue their offensive, gaining control of the city of Tikrit, the second provincial capital to fall in as many days. At least 500,000 residents of Mosul flee the fighting and head east into Kurdish-controlled territory, while insurgents storm the Turkish Embassy and take 48 Turks hostage, including the Consul General.
2014-06-11