At least 63 were killed and 17 were wounded.

Troops at the refinery in Baiji are begging for help. The refinery is again surrounded by Islamic State militants, and the men stationed there are running out of supplies. Some reinforcements did arrive on Monday. The refinery is of strategic importance to the militants and fighting has been intense there, on and off, for several months. At least 106 were killed and 35 were wounded:

At least 167 were killed and 17 were wounded:

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Iraq and Kurdistan on Saturday to affirm Canada’s commitment to the war effort and to meet with Canadian soldiers training Kurdish troops. At least 110 were killed and 63 were wounded:

Baghdad officials are blaming displaced Sunnis. The Islamic State militants took credit for the blasts, saying they were in retaliation for several attacks against those displaced Sunnis.

At least 4,811 people were killed in Iraq during April, and 1,358 were wounded. Of those 168 were killed in the last day or so. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Iraq are at odds over the arming of Sunnis and Kurds. All this comes as the European Union publicly acknowledges that the situation in Iraq is just getting worse.

Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr threatened to attack U.S. interests in Iraq should the U.S. Congress vote to send arms directly to Sunnis and Kurds. The Iraqi government rejected the notion that the U.S. could deal directly with either group. At least 69 were killed and 19 were wounded in fresh violence.

The troubling return of dumped bodies belonging to Sunni Iraqis startled two neighborhoods in Baghdad on Tuesday. At least 48 people were killed and 30 were wounded, there and elsewhere.

The bombings continued in Baghdad, as did a major military operation in nearby Garma. At least 148 were killed and 74 were wounded.

Bombs continue to explode in the capital. At least 182 were killed and 107 were wounded across Iraq.