Thirteen people, including three Iraqi soldiers, an Iraqi police officer, a US soldier, a Shi'ite party official and seven civilians have been killed in ten separate attacks across Iraq.
The attacks left another 20 people hurt, one of them seriously.
In the northern city of Kirkuk, two Kurdish civilians were shot dead at their home by unknown attackers while two civilians were injured in a car bomb attack on a US convoy.
Two mortar attacks on Iraqi military bases north of Baghdad killed three soldiers and wounded another.
An Iraqi subcontractor was killed and another wounded in an attack on a car 200km north of Baghdad.
In Mosul, two civilians were killed and another 14 were wounded in a car bomb attack.
A rocket attack on a car near Kirkuk killed two civilians and seriously wounded another.
Also in Kirkuk, a police officer was killed and another was wounded in a gun attack in a restaurant.
A US soldier was killed in a bomb blast near Tuz around 200km north of Baghdad.
Also north of the capital, an official from a Shi'ite party was killed by a group of three men in Moqdadiyah, around 100km from Baghdad.