The daily Iraq violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers Special Correspondents in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. It's posted without editing as transmitted to McClatchy's Washington Bureau.
Baghdad
Armed men blew up a 50 m high phone-net tower that belongs to Asiacell company in Abu Ghraib district, Thursday.
A suicide car bomb driven by a suicide bomber targeted an Army checkpoint in Abu Ghraib district, Tuesday, killing two soldiers and injuring 15 others. The whole district has been besieged by security forces since the explosions that followed the elections.
A magnetic bomb that was stuck to counter terrorism officer, Brig. Gen. Arkan Ali's private car, detonated in Nisoor Square, Mansour neighbourhood, west Baghdad at 8 a.m. Wednesday killing Ali and injuring three civilian passers by.
Armed men shot and killed Ali Ghazi al Juboori, the imam of al Rahman Mosque, on his door step in Athamiyah neighbourhood, at 7.30 a.m. Wednesday.
A roadside bomb targeted civilians near al Ahrar Bridge in Rasheed Street, central Baghdad, at 2 p.m. Wednesday, killing one civilian and injuring six others. The bomb, inside a plastic carrier bag with old clothes covering it, was left inside a shop that sells athletic gear.
A magnetic bomb that was stuck to a civilian car, detonated in Mansour neighbourhood, near the Baghdad International Fair grounds. The explosion killed one civilian and injured four.
Nineveh
Armed men shot and killed a civilian in his thirties in al Zinjili neighbourhood, west Mosul, Thursday.
Armed men attacked a checkpoint in 17 July neighbourhood, west Mosul, Thursday, killing two soldiers.
A car bomb driven by a suicide bomber targeted a police patrol in Zinjili neighbourhood, west Mosul, Monday, killing one police officer and one civilian passer by, injuring four policemen and eight civilians.
Salahuddin
Salahuddin police found 14 bodies buried in Shnana area, to the west of Samarra, Thursday. The state of the bodies indicates that they were killed more than a year ago.
Anbar
A roadside bomb targeted police patrol in Gattana neighbourhood, central Ramadi, at 9 a.m. Thursday, injuring all six policemen inside the vehicle, three of whom are critical.
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