Baghdad leads world's cities with the highest risk of terrorist attacks based on a report released by Verisk Maplecroft, a global-risk analysis firm.
The firm based its analysis on the intensity and frequency of attacks, as well as the number and brutality of incidents, following February 2014.
Baghdad tops the list with 1,141 casualties and more than 3,500 injured in 380 terrorist attacks staged there. It is followed by Mosul, Al Ramadi, Ba'qubah, Kirkuk and Al Hillah, all located in Iraq.
Maplecroft assessed 1,300 commercial points and urban hubs in which 64 cities are classified as being at "extreme risk." Of these cities, 27 are in the Middle East and 19 in Asia, The Telegraph noted.
Outside Iraq, Kabul, Afghanistan (13); Mogadishu, Somalia (14th); Sana'a, Yemen (19th); and Tripoli, Libya (48th) carrie the "extreme risk" labels.
Twelve capital cities including Egypt's Cairo, Abuja in Nigeria, Nairobi in Kenya and Pakistan's Islamabad are at extreme threat of terrorist attacks.
The report also disclosed three European cities that are extremely susceptible to terrorist attacks. They are Luhansk (46) in Ukraine, and Grozny (54) and Donetsk (56) in Russia.
Paris is considered "high risk" after the Charlie Hebdo attacks leaving 17 dead in January. Its former ranking was 201 but it soared to 97 after the attack, according to Time.
Maplecroft also suggested that "Islamic insurgencies drive risk in commercial centres of East and West Africa."
