Dozens of Iraqi Shia militiamen and their supporters have broken into the US Embassy compound in Baghdad, smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area in protest over deadly US air strikes targeting the Iran-backed militia.

A double suicide bombing in central Baghdad has killed at least 16 people, Iraq’s Interior Ministry spokesman said.

Iraqi Kurds were going to the polls on Monday to vote on whether to support independence from Baghdad in a historic but non-binding referendum that has raised regional tensions and fears of instability.

A car bomb in Baghdad has killed at least 47 people and wounded around 60, Iraq's interior ministry said.

Thirty-one people have been killed and 65 others injured in a suicide bombing at a funeral in northern Baghdad, Iraqi police and hospital officials said.

A series of attacks across Baghdad have killed 15 people and wounded more than 50, according to Iraqi officials.

Eleven newborn babies have died in a fire at a Baghdad hospital, an Iraqi government spokesman said.

More bodies have been recovered from the site of the weekend suicide bomb attack in central Baghdad by Islamic State, bringing the death toll to 175, Iraqi authorities have said.

Fresh reports suggest that the death toll from the Baghdad truck bombing has exceeded 200 people.

Update 4.54pm: The death toll from the car bomb attack claimed by the so-called 'Islamic State' group in central Baghdad has climbed to at least 115, Iraqi officials said.

A suicide car bombing has killed at least 15 civilians in a commercial area of a Shiite neighbourhood in Baghdad, according to officials.

At least 13 people have been killed in Iraq by a car bomb at an outdoor market in a Shiite-dominated Baghdad neighbourhood.

Islamic State militants have attacked a state-run natural gas plant outside Baghdad, killing 12 people.

Islamic State militants have attacked a state-run natural gas plant outside Baghdad, killing at least 12 people, officials said.

At least 29 people have died after a car bomb ripped through a commercial area in a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.

Eighteen people have been killed by a car bomb in Baghdad.

Dozens of protesters have climbed over the blast walls surrounding Baghdad's highly-fortified Green Zone and could be seen storming into parliament, carrying Iraqi flags and chanting against Iraq's government.

Over a dozen people have been killed in a car bomb in Iraq this morning.

Militants have unleashed a wave of suicide attacks across Iraq - killing at least 29 people and wounding dozens, officials said.

Suicide bombers hit a religious building and a military checkpoint in a Shiite-majority neighbourhood of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 15 people, an Iraqi security official said.

The US Embassy in Baghdad confirms that “several” Americans are missing in Iraq after local media reported that three Americans had been kidnapped in the Iraqi capital.

At least 18 people are dead after gunmen stormed into a shopping centre in Baghdad after setting off a car bomb and launching a suicide attack at its entrance.

At least 18 people are dead after gunmen stormed into a shopping centre in Baghdad after setting off a car bomb and launching a suicide attack at its entrance.

The so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide blast and a roadside bombing that targeted Shiites in Baghdad, killing a total of 26 people and wounding dozens.

A barrage of rockets slammed into a former military base near the Baghdad International Airport that houses an Iranian refugee group, killing more than 20 people, reports say.

At least 21 people are dead after two suicide bombers targeted Iraqi police checkpoints in central Baghdad.

Two suicide attacks have targeted police checkpoints in commercial areas in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, killing at least 14 people

A car bomb at a popular car dealership has killed 13 people and injured 52 in eastern Baghdad’s volatile Sadr City neighbourhood, two days after a market bombing killed dozens.

Seventy-six people were killed and 212 wounded yesterday in a blast claimed by Islamic State, in Baghdad’s Sadr City, police and medical sources said.

The so-called 'Islamic State' group has claimed responsibility for a bombing in Iraq, which has killed more than 70 people.

At least 60 people were killed and 200 injured on Thursday in a truck bomb attack in Baghdad, according to police and medical sources.

At least nine civilians have been killed after a Russian-made fighter jet accidentally dropped a bomb over a Baghdad neighbourhood, Iraqi officials said.

A series of bombings targeting public places in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have killed 12 people.

Multiple explosions have rocked Baghdad, killing at least 32 people and sending plumes of smoke into the sky across the street from a major government building in a brazen reminder of the ability of insurgents to penetrate the heart of the capital.