In Baghdad, a bombing killed five people and wounded 10 others.
Tuesday, an al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in a Baghdad hotel, which killed at least 12 people, including four Sunni tribal leaders.
The Islamic State of Iraq said the Monday attack was in response to an Iraqi police raid on a Sunni house in al-Anbar province in which a man was detained and one of his daughters allegedly raped.
In Baghdad Tuesday, an Iraqi tribal leader was shot and killed.
In other developments, a U.S. Marine was killed while conducting combat operations in al-Anbar Tuesday. - VOA News
