At least nine people were killed, and nine were wounded in recent violence:
An attack on a militia checkpoint in Adhaim left three dead and four wounded. Two of the wounded were security personnel. One of the fatalities may also have been a militia member.
In Baghdad, a father and his son were killed in a roadside bomb blast. Gunmen killed a civilian.
The body of a kidnapped soldier in Saidiya was found. He had been stabbed to death.
A bomb wounded three soldiers in Daquq.
Gunmen in Karbala wounded a candidate running for parliamentary elections.
Turkish airstrikes on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (P.K.K.) targets in Sharbazher left two guerrillas dead and another wounded.
