Suicide attack, car bombs kill 22 in Iraq

At least 22 people were killed after a wave of bombings struck across Iraq on Sunday, officials said.

The deadliest attack took place in Baghdad's Khilani Square, where a car bomb killed at least seven soldiers and wounded 25 others, a police officer said. The car was parked near a Sunni mosque and a gathering of motorcycle vendors.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for any of the attacks, but Shi'ite areas and government forces are often targeted by Sunni Islamist insurgents the government is struggling to dislodge from large sections of the north and west.

ISIL militants are also believed to be responsible as Iraqi security forces continued to clash with ISIL fighters for control of territory in Iraq's Western Anbar province.

Another six people were killed and 17 others wounded when a car bomb went off near Khilani Square in central Baghdad, police and medical sources said.

Six more people were killed in bomb attacks in Baghdad's predominantly Shi'ite districts of Amil, Hussainiya and Bayaa, the sources said. A car bomb killed three people and wounded seven in the town of Mahmoudiya, about 30 km south of Baghdad.