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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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