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capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River

Between assignments in hot, troubled places like Gaza and Baghdad, I tried to find respite in the English countryside.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders

It was like he was dodging death once more in Kabul or Baghdad.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
Bashir paused to watch a live CNN feed from Baghdad.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
If we have a B2 in the air circling Baghdad, we can drop a bomb in an hour, but we don't have B2s in the air or even out of the hangar.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
Christian peace activist JAMES LONEY was captured by Iraqi militants in Baghdad in November 2005.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
For example, Abu Aharon, an early Kabbalist who emigrated from Baghdad to Italy, was said to perform miracles through the power of the Sacred Names.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
Milo was not only the Vice-Shah of Oran, as it turned out, but also the Caliph of Baghdad, the Imam of Damascus, and the Sheik of Araby.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Nighttime Baghdad, in the throes of Shock and Awe, keeps lighting up in flashes of green.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
No place ever came off well when a disease was named after it: Delhi belly, Baghdad blues, Turkey trots.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
I watch the bombings in Baghdad and I know they could be happening in Atlanta or in Washington.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
There had been a number of internal hijackings recently, offering the slim but real possibility that our flight would make an unscheduled stop in Baghdad.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
From there Thibault's squad was ordered north to Baghdad to help to secure the capital city.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
That's more than four hundred miles to the south of Baghdad, and that's hot.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
A caravan of five huge oil tankers thundered past them, headed back toward Baghdad from Amman, Jordan.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
Mary Debenham had had little sleep since she left Baghdad on the preceding Thursday.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
Now we were tasked to assist the Marines as they marched north toward Baghdad.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
Remember Baghdad Bob?
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
It was one of his curiosities to figure out historical happenings like the building of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway or the Battle of Tannenberg, and he furthermore knew a lot about the lives of Martyrs.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Zainab grew up in Baghdad in the period shaped by the long Iran-Iraq war, always fearful of attacks, raised by a father who was a pilot and a mother who was an unusually emancipated woman trained in biology.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
I'd been stationed in Germany; I had yet to go to Fallujah or Baghdad or receive her letter, which I read in the railroad station in Samawah in the initial weeks of the campaign; I had yet to return home from the events that changed the course of my life.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John

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