Car bombs have hit several mostly Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad and a town south of the Iraqi capital, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, officials say.
Attacks in Iraq have left 15 people dead while security forces say they killed 25 ISIL militants near Baghdad amid worries insurgents are encroaching on the capital weeks ahead of elections.
Iraqi security forces have killed 19 militants, amid a surge of violence ahead of parliamentary elections.
Iraqi security forces killed more than 40 militants on Thursday in clashes in a town southwest of Baghdad, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Members of Iraq's electoral commission have withdrawn their resignations, partly after an appeal from the United Nations mission to Baghdad, state television said.
Attacks in Sunni-majority areas of Iraq have killed five people, exactly a month ahead of parliamentary polls that remain in disarray after the mass resignations of election commissioners last week.
Ongoing clashes between anti-government militants and Iraqi soldiers near a militant-held city on Baghdad's doorstep have killed at least three people and wounded dozens more, officials say.
An officer in a brigade responsible for guarding a Baghdad compound controlled by ailing Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has killed a journalist after an argument, officials said.
Increasing violence in Iraq claims 16 more lives, as the country struggles with an al-Qaeda-awakened deadly insurgency in the west.
Baghdad, as a model city in the Arab world in 1970s, after decades of seemingly endless conflict, is now the world's worst city, a consulting group says.