VIOLENCE IS ERUPTING ALL ACROSS IRAQ AGAIN: HERE IS A LIST OF SECURITY INCIDENTS IN EACH PROVINCE

Our sources in Iraq are reporting an uptick in violence in the past 24 hours after a calm that lasted only 24 hours. Baghdad has come under heavy attack especially in the Sadr City area of Baghdad.

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Security incidents:Baghdad:#1: A fire caused by a roadside bombing in volatile eastern Baghdad overnight damaged a U.S. military vehicle and roared through a market, an Interior Ministry official told CNN on Monday.The official said there were no Iraqi casualties in the incidents, in which a bomb targeted a U.S. military convoy. He said the blaze broke out at 2 a.m. Monday and firefighters extinguished the blaze hours later. A U.S. military spokesman reported a roadside bombing targeting an MRAP vehicle in the Karrada district at around 11:30 p.m. Sunday. The spokesman said the blaze caused a fire that burned down a market. The military could not immediately confirm American casualties.U.S. military said none of the soldiers involved were seriously hurt.

#2: In the central part of the capital, at least four civilians were killed and 10 others wounded when a bomb placed under a parked car detonated near a gas station Monday, the Interior Ministry said.

#3: Fighting resumed in Baghdad's Sadr City overnight after a day's lull, ending hopes of a let-up in clashes between US and government troops and Shia gunmen who control the streets of the sprawling slum. Angry mourners carried a coffin containing the body of a man killed in the clashes through the streets. A hospital said seven wounded casualties had arrived overnight. Residents swept out the rubble from freshly damaged buildings."We heard the sound of bombing and clashes after midnight. It lasted for around an hour and then it stopped. American planes were hovering in the sky until morning," said grocer Ali Sittar.Ten people including six children were wounded in a clashes overnight of Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, police said.

#4: The U.S. military said militants firing rocket propelled grenades ambushed an American patrol in eastern Baghdad late Sunday night. Armed helicopters and an Abrams tank repulsed the attack, killing six of the gunmen, the statement said.

#5: Around 8 am, a roadside bomb targeted an American patrol at Tahriyat intersection in Karrada neighborhood .No casualties reported.

#6: Around 8:30 am, a roadside bomb targeted an American patrol at Fudhailiyah neighborhood (east Baghfdad).No casualties reported.

#7: Around 11:30 am, a roadside bomb targeted an American patrol at Shaab intersection. No casualties reported.

#8: Around 11:45 am, a roadside bomb targeted a police patrol at Tayran square in Bab Al-Sharji (central Baghdad).Five policemen were killed and nine others were injured (two policemen and 7 civilians).

#9: A bomb inside a bus killed at least two people and wounded six others near the Technological University in eastern Baghdad, police said.Diyala Prv:

Baquba:#1: Gunmen killed an Independent Electoral Commission worker in a drive-by shooting outside his house east of Baquba, 65 km (42 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.An armed group assassinated an official NGOs official near the district of al-Wajihiya, 20 km east of Baaquba city, on Monday, a security source in Diala said. "Abdul-Kareem Sabaa was killed by unidentified gunmen fire in al-Wajihiya," the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq.

Muqdadiya:#1: U.S. soldiers discovered at least 20 bodies Sunday in a mass grave near the town of Muqdadiya, the military announced Monday. Military officials said the bodies may have been at the gravesite for nearly eight months. The discovery marks the second time in a week when soldiers have come across a mass grave site.A joint security force found five unidentified bodies in a village in al-Muqdadiya district, 45 km northeast of Baaquba, a security source from Diala province said on Monday. The mass grave, found in al-Zor village, Muqdadiya, contained 35 bodies. Thirty were discovered on Sunday and five on Monday. All of them were decayed," the source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq.

Yusufiya:#1: A roadside bomb killed two policemen and wounded another when it hit their patrol near Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

Mahaweel:#1: Two bodies were found with gunshot wounds in Mahaweel, 75 km (45 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.Basra:#1: Iraqi's interior ministry executed 28 criminals and militant cult members in the city of Basra, some 550 kilometres south of Baghdad, media reports said on Monday.

#2: Late Sunday, unknown gunmen assassinated police Maj. Ali Haider, a commander in the department's serious crimes directorate, said Col. Salim Zaydi. Haider was a member of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, a Shiite political party that is part of al-Maliki's governing coalition, Zaydi said.

#3: A British journalist kidapped in Iraq's southern city of Basra on February 10 has been freed, state television said on Monday. "The Iraqi army liberated the British journalist Richard Butler," the television said, quoting defence ministry spokesman Major General Mohammed al-Askari.

#4: Iraqi security forces lost 15 soldiers and 400 others wounded since the commencement of Operation Saulat al-Forsan (Knights' Assault) in the southern Iraq city of Basra last March, according to the interior ministry's National Command Center on Monday.

Shirqat:#1: Gunmen attacked houses and wounded 17 people including five women early Monday morning in Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.In the morning , gunmen of about 40 members of what is called the Islamic State of Iraq attacked some houses at Ral Al-Dhahab village north of Fatha andwest of Baiji which is 240 km north of Baghdad )injuring 17 Sahwa members.

Dour:#1: In the morning, the Iraqi army found a dead body in Dour (south Tikrit and north of Baghdad).Rashad:#1: A body was found with gunshot wounds and signs of torture on Sunday in the town of Rashad, south of Kirkuk, police said.

Kirkuk:#1: Two bodies were found with gunshot wounds and signs of torture northeast of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#2: A roadside bomb on Monday detonated in the northern city of Kirkuk, leaving no human casualties, police said. “An improvised explosive device (IED) went off near Baghdad's main coach station, central Kirkuk, leaving no human casualties or material damage.”

Sulaimani Prv:#1: Iranian artillery began shelling the villages in Sengeser sub-county and Pishder District of Sulaimani Province in Northern Iraq on Monday, a news service associated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani reported. The shelling in Quandil mountain targeted the PEJAK, a breakaway faction of the outlawed separatist PKK, PUK media reported. Abdullah Ibrahim, the director of Sengeser sub-county, said "Iranian artillery struck Kinera, Sawen Mountain and Mamenda areas without causing any damage,” it reported.

Al Anbar Prv:Fallujah:#1: At least 500 Iraqi children are disabled or handicapped in the wake of U.S. assaults on Fallujah, a children's advocacy group says. Alaa Hamed of the Society for the Welfare of Children said military operations in Fallujah, located about 40 miles west of Baghdad, caused "massive destruction," leaving at least 500 children under 5 mentally or physically handicapped, the Iraqi daily newspaper Azaman reported on its English-language Web site Sunday.

#2: update A local council member and five members of his family were killed in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, on Sunday by a stick bomb in their car, police said.