Baghdad: A series of attacks, including a car bomb outside a cafe, killed at least 21 people in Iraq on Monday, officials said.
Iraqi authorities have struggled to quell a surge in violence—mostly from insurgent attacks and bombings—that engulfed the country following a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in April.
Since then, the level of bloodshed has soared to heights unseen since Iraq stood on the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007.
The deadliest of Monday's attacks took place outside a cafe in the town of Buhriz, about 60 kilometers (35 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, killing 12 people and wounding 24, police said.
Three more bombings around the country killed an additional six people.
A roadside bomb targeted an army patrol just south of the capital, killing one Iraqi soldier and wounded two others, while in Baghdad's eastern Basmaya district a bomb at an outdoor market killed three people and wounded seven, police said.
