Various attacks left at least 34 dead and 40 wounded across Iraq today. The violence even touched Iraqi Kurdistan when mortars fell on a home.
Five people were killed and 14 more were wounded when a car bomb blasted worshippers exiting a Shi’ite mosque in Madaen.
Mortars struck a home in Sireen village in Suleimaniya, killing two people and wounding seven more.
Three bombs in al-Qanater left two dead and five wounded.
In Dour, a Sahwa member was killed and another was wounded in a sticky bombing. A second blast that drew spectators killed another two people and wounded three more.
Two soldiers were killed and three more were wounded in a blast in Samarra.
A car bomb killed three policemen in Kirkuk province.
In Baiji, two people were killed and a child was wounded in a bombing.
Two policemen were killed as they tried to defuse a bomb on a road near the city of Kirkuk.
Security forces in Nineva province reported killing two gunmen during an operation. Gunmen killed a civilian and a soldier.
In Mosul, a suicide bomber killed a soldier and wounded another.
A policeman was killed and two more were wounded in a car bombing in Albu Jabir.
An I.E.D. in Qadisiya left one policeman dead and two more wounded.
A policeman was killed in a sticky bomb attack in Tikrit.
In Basra, a former politician was assassinated.
A sniper wounded a policeman in Falluja.
Three gunmen were killed during a security operation in Udhaim.