Crimea might not have been much of a conflict zone but Eastern Ukraine was.

Sectarian violence isn’t a conflict zone? Northern Ireland wasn’t a conflict zone?

I’d say a conflict zone is an area of at least semi-active clashes. Sectarian violence may or may not cut it - were Nazi concentration camps conflict zones?

I’m not saying it’s safe or anything, but Baghdad was spared ISIS, the former green zone is open to the public, compared to what most of the rest of the country has seen these past few years I fail to see how you’d classify it as a conflict zone.