A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle near an army patrol in the city of Mosul, killing 12 people and wounding 16, while a bomb killed a soldier near the city.
In the city of Kirkuk, gunmen shot dead Abdullah Sami al Asi, a provincial councillor and deputy head of the province’s security committee, along with two of his guards.
In the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, gunmen attacked a police station, wounding one policeman, while one attacker was killed and another wounded.
And attacks elsewhere in the province killed an anti-Qaeda militiaman, a soldier and a police officer.
Iraq has faced years of attacks by militants, but analysts say a fresh upsurge of violence has been fuelled by discontent among members of its Sunni Arab minority, which the Shiite led government has failed to address.
With the latest attacks, more than 600 people have been killed in violence so far this month and more than 2,800 since the beginning of the year, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources.
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