Iraq - Bombings in and around Baghdad killed 17 people, an interior ministry official says. Meanwhile, bomb attacks in the northern province of Kirkuk left nine people dead, according to high-ranking police officers (9News).

Three more people were killed in bombings in Samarra in Salaheddin province, according to a commander of a local anti-al-Qaeda militia and a police lieutenant-colonel.

And in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, a suicide bomber killed a police officer in the provincial capital Baquba, an army officer says.