The death toll from this morning’s suicide bomb attack in western Baghdad has risen to 21.
More than 40 people were injured when the bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body outside an Iraqi army recruiting centre.
Most of the victims of the attack, which came as people were starting their working day in the capital, were said to be young men waiting to enlist.
The attack comes on the same day as a leaked British government memo revealed the US and Britain hope to reduce the number of their troops in Iraq by more than half over the next year.
Elsewhere in Iraq, at least 14 people were killed in two other suicide attacks.
In Kirkuk in the north of the country, a suicide car bomber killed three civilians and wounded 10 near the local authority building.
Police spokesman Colonel Yadigar Mohammed said it was not clear what the bomber's target had been.
And four police were killed and three injured further north near Mosul, when a suicide bomber hit the motorcade of a district police chief. The brigadier targeted was unscathed.
