Attacks in various parts of Iraq killed at least 21 people today. In central Baghdad, Iraqi police said a roadside bomb killed at least five people and wounded nine others. In northern Iraq, officials say a car bomb killed 12 members of the Kurdish peshmerga security force, which is part of the Iraqi army. Two others were wounded in the attack near Rabiaa, west of Mosul near the Syrian border.
Officials say three people were killed and at least 10 others wounded in the northern city of Tal Afar when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral. Also, the U.S. military says a roadside bomb killed an American soldier in Iraq's central province of Salahuddin.