At least three Iraqis were killed and two more were wounded in unusually light violence.
Police in Samarra killed two men who refused to stop for them outside a pharmaceutical plant.
In Baghdad, gunmen fired upon a car carrying an Interior Ministry director, wounding him and his driver.
In Mosul, army personnel killed an armed man in a clash. Eleven suspects were arrested. A weapon’s cache was also discovered.
Seven suspects were captured in Babel province.
An I.E.D. was defused on a road in Hour al-Pasha.