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.
Nineveh
Two policemen were killed and two others injured while trying to defuse IEDs planted under a small bridge in the town of Hammam al Aleel in southern Mosul, Monday.
A parked car bomb targeted a police patrol near the general hospital in the town of Hamdaniyah, 17 km to the east of Mosul at 2.30 p.m. Monday killing nine policemen including one Asayesh (Kurd intelligence) and injuring two policemen and nine civilians.
Diyala
Gunmen targeted a policeman and shot him dead in Jalowlaa district to the northeast of Baquba Monday morning.