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Islamic State,
which controls territory in northern and western Iraq, claimed
several of the attacks on statements on its Amaq news agency.
More than 60 people were wounded.
A suicide car bomb blew up in the center of Basra, the largest
city in Iraq, killing five people, and another targeted a convoy
of the Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), a coalition of Shi'ite
militias, killing five, in the town of Mashahdeh, north of
Baghdad.
People wearing suicide belts blew themselves up at a military
checkpoint in the north of Baghdad, killing five, and in the
middle of a crowd of PMF outside a restaurant in the southern
city of Nassiriya, killing four.
Two members of the government's security forces were killed in
suicide car bombs in the province of al-Anbar, west of Baghdad,
and a third was killed south of Baghdad by an explosive device,
local security sources said.
Two people were also killed when mortar rounds hit the district
of Abu Ghraib, west of the capital, they said.
(Reporting by Maher Chmaytelli; Editing by Alison Williams)
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