At least 66 people were killed and 84 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Today’s violence was marked by a deadly return to using fake checkpoints to kill both civilians and security members. The tactic was used heavily during the height of sectarian violence.
A bomb left in a cart killed 15 people and wounded 41 others. when it exploded in Tuz Khormato.
Fourteen truck drivers were killed in an ambush on a highway near Suleiman Pek; one civilian was wounded.
Gunmen attacked a police station in Mosul, where they killed nine policemen and wounded two more. A bomb wounded an ambulance driver and a nurse who rushed to the scene of the attack. Gunmen killed a soldier at his home. Gunmen assassinated a Mukhtar. A roadside bomb killed two civilians and wounded three others.
On a highway near Tikrit, gunmen stopped a minivan and then killed four soldiers. Another four were wounded, along with the driver.
An officer and a soldier were killed in a Kirkuk suicide bombing that also left six soldiers wounded.
In Baghdad, three dumped bodies were recovered. A bomb in the Qahira neighborhood left four dead and 10 wounded. An oil ministry employee and his driver wounded in a bombing in Ur. 66 84
In Tarmiya, a bomb wounded three policemen.
A soldier was killed and another was wounded in a blast in Qaim. Four gunmen were shot to death in a clash.
Two soldiers were wounded in a bombing near Falluja.
Near Mandali, the body of a school guard was found bearing gunshot wounds.
A bomb in Baquba wounded two people, including a civilian.
A bomb wounded a soldier in Saidiya.
Four gunmen were killed and two soldiers were wounded during a clash in Chabbab.
A sticky bomb wounded a lawyer near Hilla.
