Light prayer day violence left five dead and nine wounded. Meanwhile, Sunnis held anti-government protests for the fourth Friday in a row and said that the prisoner releases were not enough to end their demonstrations.

In Abu Ghraib, a bomb killed two policemen.

Two soldiers were killed in a Tal Afar bombing.

Gunmen wounded two policemen in Hamdaniya.

Police at a checkpoint in Muqdadiya killed a suicide bomber on a motorcycle. His bomb exploded anyway, wounding a policeman.

An I.E.D. in Jurf al-Sakhar wounded three policemen.

A bomb wounded two policemen in Mosul.

Late last night in Iskandariya, gunmen wounded a policeman.

No casualties were reported after rockets landed on a military site in Kirkuk.

Read more by Margaret Griffis

• Baghdad Rattled by Blasts: 43 Killed Across Iraq – June 18th, 2013
• Bombings Return to Central Iraq; 23 Killed – June 17th, 2013
• Iraq’s Shi’ite South Targeted: 54 Killed, 174 Wounded – June 16th, 2013
• 23 Killed Across Iraq; Mortar Attack on Iranian Dissident Camp – June 15th, 2013
• Iraq: Sunni Governor Unhurt in Assassination Attempt, Two Others Killed – June 13th, 2013