There is no letup to violence in Ramadi and Fallujah, the key cities of Iraq's volatile majority Sunni Anbar province.
As votes are being counted in Iraqi parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he is "certain" of winning.
At least 21 people were killed in Baghdad, Fallujah, and nearby areas on April 19 in bombings and months-long fighting between government forces and Al-Qaeda-linked militants.
Iraqi military jets have dropped leaflets over the city of Fallujah urging remaining civilians there to leave within three days in anticipation of intense air strikes.
Heavy fighting between Iraqi security forces and Al-Qaeda-linked militants and antigovernment tribesmen is reported in the violence-plagued city of Ramadi.
Residents are continuing to leave the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah.
Dozens of Iraqi newspapers refused to publish on March 23 to protest the killing of a prominent RFE/RL journalist by a man who witnesses said was a member of the Iraqi presidential guard.
The Baghdad bureau chief of RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq, Mohammed Bdaiwi Owaid al-Shammari, has been shot dead at a checkpoint while on his way to work.
Police and hospital officials in Iraq say at least 10 people have been killed and dozens more injured in attacks across the country.
The UN has expressed concern about the fate of civilians in the Iraqi city of Fallujah as fighting between government forces and militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) continues.
Iraqi military commanders are saying a new push by their forces into the city of Ramadi has cleared most of the militants from the city.
An Iraqi media freedom watchdog has raised concerns over an attack against a Baghdad-based newspaper.
Insurgents have attacked a government building in Baghdad as bombings also struck the Iraqi capital.
Heavy fighting between Iraqi security forces and Al-Qaeda-linked militants has been reported in the central cities of Ramadi and Fallujah.
More fighting has been reported in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, where Islamist gunmen continue to hold parts of two cities.
Iraqi government forces are reported to have carried out strikes in the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, as the fight against Al-Qaeda linked militants continues in Anbar Province.
Fighting has intensified in the central Iraqi city of Ramadi as tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in restive Anbar Province.
Iraqi security forces have launched an operation against Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the city of Ramadi.
Iraqi security forces and Sunni tribesmen have continued their multipronged attacks against Al-Qaeda-linked militants and antigovernment forces in the restive western Anbar Province.
Iraqi security forces and Sunni tribesmen have recaptured parts of the central city of Ramadi from Al-Qaeda-linked militants.
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