Attacks in Iraq, including a suicide bombing near the provincial council headquarters in the battleground city of Ramadi, killed 14 people Tuesday, most of them soldiers and police, officials said.

Attacks in Iraq, including a suicide bombing near the provincial council headquarters in the battleground city of Ramadi, killed 14 people Tuesday, most of them soldiers and police, officials said.

In Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near the council headquarters, killing three soldiers and wounding at least four.

In the north, gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in a village west of the oil refinery town of Baiji, killing four police and wounding three.

And in Nineveh province, separate bombings killed two police and wounded four, while a roadside bomb in the Tuz Khurmatu area killed one civilian.

In the capital, a car bomb in the city centre killed at least four people and wounded at least 13.

The deaths came after violence killed 35 people on Monday.