At least seven people were killed, and 16 were wounded in recent violence; 40 bodies were found in a mass grave:
Forty bodies belonging to ISIS members were discovered in a mass grave in Kaske.
In Rashad, a bombing wounded seven militiamen. Their comrades transported them to a hospital in Kirkuk, where police told them to leave their weapons outside. When they refused to obey the order, a skirmish broke out, leaving three more wounded.
Also in Kirkuk, gunmen assassinated Jabbar Rashid, the head of the local Kurdistan Democratic Party. A civilian was wounded in a shooting.
An old landmine in Sitkan killed one person and wounded three more.
One police officer was killed and two more were wounded when militants attacked a station in Mahmoud Abbas.
An airstrike killed three militants in Makhmour.
A militant leader was killed in an airstrike in the Hamrin Mountains.
