At least 20 people were killed in several blasts targeting public places and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.
A car bomb, which detonated near a restaurant in the city's east, killed 10 people, including three women, and injured 24. Several shops and cars were torched in the attack.
Earlier on Tuesday, a roadside bomb targeted an army patrol, killing four people, three of them soldiers. In addition, three more people were killed by a blast in the Saydiya district of southern Baghdad, and another three in the western Amriya quarter.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attacks.
Also on Tuesday, three militants dressed in army uniforms killed at least eight people in a government building in Iraq's western Anbar province. The "Islamic State" (IS) claimed responsibility for the incident, saying that their gunmen had killed "dozens of apostates."
One of the attackers blew himself up inside the building, while the other two were gunned down before managing to detonate their suicide vests, according to a local official.
Another 17 people were injured, according to a police source, including the head of the district council Shakir al-Issawi, who jumped from the window of his office after the explosion.
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