At least 13 people, including a parliamentary candidate and four children, have been killed in bombings and shootings in Iraq, officers and medical sources said.
Nine bombings mainly targeting Shia-majority areas of Baghdad have killed at least 12 people.
Unknown gunmen in military uniforms have attacked the city council building in Iraq’s Samarra, occupying the headquarters and holding several people hostage.
Dozens of militants died in two days of fighting with counter-terrorism forces in a city west of Iraq's capital, a security spokesman said, while violence elsewhere Monday killed at least 10 people.
The United Nations announced that over 700 people were killed in terror-related violence across Iraq this February with the capital Baghdad worst bearing the brunt of terrorist attacks.
At least 52 people have been killed and many others wounded in separate attacks targeting mostly Shia neighborhoods across Iraq, official sources say.
Iraqi authorities have reported at least 21 people killed in terrorist bombings across the nation’s capital Baghdad as the foreign-backed terror campaign in the Arab country continues unabated.
Atheel al-Nujaifi, governor of Iraq's Nineveh province and the parliament speaker's brother, has survived the third attempt on his life this month, officials said.
An Iraqi politician says his country is in war with terrorist groups supported by the Saudi Arabia and Israeli regime.
Iraq's Defense Ministry has announced a 72-hour cease to military operations in the militant-held city of Fallujah.