**Car bombs and and a barrage of mortars have killed at least nine people and wounded 50 more in the centre of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.**One car reportedly exploded outside the foreign ministry near the edge of the heavily guarded government Green Zone, reportedly leaving a huge crater.
Another went off close to the finance ministry building.
Iraq has witnessed a reduction in insurgency violence recently, but attacks remain common in some cities.
The violence comes exactly six years after one of the first major attacks.
On 19 August 2003, the UN headquarters in Baghdad was hit by a suicide truck bomb, killing 22 people in what was the most deadly attack up until that point following the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
In the past six years, tens of thousands of have been killed in the violence that followed.