MOSUL : 7 security elements of the Peshmerga forces were killed and 26 others were injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in their assembly of northern Mosul.

KARBALA : The explosions by the five cars' bombing in karbala resulted in 15 deaths and 48 injuries, which they were mostly civilians.

BAGHDAD : The bombing that targeted a mosque by a suicide bomber in Sayyed Sultan Ali area of central Baghdad resulted in killing 4 civilians and injuring 13 others.

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LOGAR : In Logar province, at least 4 soldiers died in the east when fighters attacked security posts.

GHOR : In the central province of Ghor, at least 500 Taliban militants attacked two villages where the number of casualties remains unclear.

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RADDA : More than 20 Houthis were killed in clashes between Shiite rebels and al-Qaeda militants in the central region of Radda in Yemen. An attack on a Houthi gathering killed 23 Shia fighters, 15 were killed in a suicide car bombing and 29 others were killed by shelling and an attack at two posts.

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DAMBOA : Suspected militant Islamists belonging to Boko Haram have stormed in many towns in Nigeria's northeast in an apparent violation of a cease-fire the government claims it had agreed with the insurgents. Fighters drove Toyota pickup trucks into the town of Damboa, and killed about 25 people there.