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
- Gunmen killed four members of Awakening, a U.S. backed Sunni militia, in Al Mishahda area, north of Baghdad.
- A bomb exploded in a parking lot in front of the ministry of transportation building in Palestine Street. Four civilians were injured and several vehicles were damaged around 11:30 a.m.
- Gunmen shot and killed an Iraqi army military intelligence officer in Zayuna neighborhood around 1 p.m.