Bomb blasts across Iraq

Residents inspect a damaged church after a bomb attack in central Kirkuk, on Monday, August 15, as scores of people were killed across the country in a spate of nationwide violence, just months ahead of a pullout of US forces. A parked car bomb and a motorcycle bomb killed one person and wounded 12 others in central Kirkuk.

Iraqi security forces inspect damages after two car bombs, one of which was detonated by a suicide attacker, detonated in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, on Monday.

Residents gather at the site of bomb attacks in Kut, 93 miles southeast of Baghdad, on Monday. Two bombs tore through a public square in the southern Iraqi city of Kut, killing at least 37 people in the worst in a string of bombings and suicide attacks across the country, officials said.

Iraqi policemen transfer a wounded comrade to a local hospital after he was injured in a car bomb attack in Najaf, southern Iraq, on Monday.

Iraqis inspect damages following a blast in the Mansur neighborhood of Baghdad on Monday.

Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a suicide car bomber plowed his vehicle into a checkpoint outside a police building just outside the holy city of Najaf on Monday.