Iraq Weekly Roundup

There was a fall in the total number of violent incidents reported in Iraq last week but conditions remain bad nonetheless. At least 150 people were killed and 382 injured in nationwide incidents. In 2012, the average weekly fatality range was 20-80. A total of 70 non-suicide bomb attacks left 67 people dead and 234 injured last week. Six additional suicide bombings left 31 more people dead and 130 injured. Small arms attacks left 49 people dead and 18 injured. Violence was concentrated in the cities of Baghdad and Mosul. Incidents also occurred along a belt of Anbar province stretching from Anah to Abu Ghraib, and along a belt in Diyala province from Ba'qubah to Khanaqin.  Additional clusters of attacks were reported in Shirqat (Salah ad-Din province) and Qa'im (Anbar province), while the northern city of Kirkuk also saw several incidents, including a complex mass-casualty attack on a police building and shopping centre. The south of the country was relatively quiet although a bomb targeted the convoy of a security company in Basrah province. Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) territory also saw a handful of rare incidents, all of which occurred in the city of Sulaymaniyah. Source: AKE