At least nine Iraqis were killed and six more were wounded in light violence, only a day after significant bloodshed was seen across Iraq. The worst of the violence took place in the northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk.

In Mosul, gunmen shot an employee of a cement company. An attack at a barbershop left one customer dead and the owner wounded. The decapitated body of a policeman was found. A soldier was killed at a checkpoint. A blast left two civilians wounded.

Two brothers were killed in a drive-by shooting in Kirkuk. A highway attack left one person dead and his wife wounded.

A bomb killed a soldier and wounded another in Tuz Khormato.

In Baghdad, a military officer was killed during a drive-by shooting in the Saidiya neighborhood.

A roadside bomb in Baquba wounded a policeman.

Read more by Margaret Griffis

• Iraq PM Warns of Vague Sectarian Threat – February 22nd, 2012
• Iraq: This Year’s Official Executions Already Surpass 2011′s – February 21st, 2012
• Judges to Try VP on Three Counts of Terrorism As He Makes His Own Charges – February 20th, 2012
• 40 Killed Across Iraq, Police Recruits Targeted – February 19th, 2012
• Iraqi Kurdistan Prepares For Protests; 3 Killed in Attacks – February 17th, 2012