Five bombings and clashes between soldiers and gunmen killed eight people in Iraq on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has cost more than 370 lives so far this month. In Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, clashes between Iraqi soldiers and gunmen and a suicide bombing killed three soldiers and wounded at least seven, security and medical officials said.

Attacks in Iraq on Tuesday killed four people, including a child and a protest organiser, and wounded 14, security and medical officials said. In Fallujah, west of Baghdad, gunmen killed an anti-Qaeda militiaman along with his brother, while a car bomb in the main northern city of Mosul killed a child and wounded 14 other people, police and doctors said. In Diyala province just north of the capital, gunmen killed anti-government protest organiser Abdulrahman al-Badri, officials said. Protests broke out in Sunni areas of Shiite-majority Iraq more than four months ago.

Two bomb attacks in Iraq on Wednesday killed eight people, including four anti-Qaeda fighters who died when a suicide bomber struck as they gathered to collect their salaries, officials said. The bomber, who was on foot, detonated explosives at a police station in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, as the militiamen, known as Sahwa, gathered near a police station, police Lieutenant Colonel Khaled Yassir al-Jumaili said. The blast killed five people, including a senior police officer and four Sahwa fighters. It also wounded 15 other people.

Iraq suspended the licences of 10 satellite television channels, including Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, for promoting violence and sectarianism, an official from the country's media regulator said Sunday. "We took a decision to suspend the licence of some satellite channels that adopted language encouraging violence and sectarianism," Mujahid Abu al-Hail, a top official from the Communications and Media Commission, told AFP. "It means stopping their work in Iraq and their activities, so they cannot cover events in Iraq or move around," he said.