A bombing in central Baghdad has killed at least nine people and injured 23, according to security and medical officials.
According to an interior ministry official the attack was a roadside bomb, while a police colonel said that was then followed by a suicide bombing.
Police said the suicide blast was carried out by an attacker wearing an explosive vest near Tahrir Square in the centre of the Iraqi capital.
An eyewitness told AP the explosion happened outside a shop selling military fatigues.
Medical staff were seen waiting near stretchers on the pavement in front of one hospital in Baghdad, on which casualties were placed and taken inside, an AFP journalist at the scene said.
The government claims to have killed 279 "terrorists" The street was closed to all traffic except ambulances.
The government is currently battling a Sunni militant-led insurgency that threatens to split the country along ethnic lines.
Fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have seized many towns and cities north of Baghdad, although the militants' advance has seemed to slow in recent days.
On Sunday a security spokesman said 279 "terrorists" have been killed in the last 24 hours.
Commanders say government forces have retaken two towns north of the capital.
Kurdish security forces clash with ISIS fighters near Diyala They will be joined by a flood of volunteers, who have responded to a call to arms by the top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, to defend their country.
A recruitment centre for volunteers in Khales, central Iraq, came under mortar fire on Sunday.
Six people died, including three soldiers, police and a doctor said.
As troops continue efforts to drive back the militants, there are reports the insurgents have carried out summary executions of security forces members they captured.
Soldiers found the burned bodies of 12 policemen as they recaptured the town of Ishaqi in Salaheddin province, a police colonel and doctor said.
ISIS's swift advance has taken it to within 50 miles of Baghdad The situation on the ground has been complicated by the territorial advances made by forces from the autonomous Kurdish region in the north, who are in control of the city of Kirkuk.
A senior official said Kurdish Peshmerga forces had taken one of two official border crossings with Syria earlier this week.
Iraq launched an air strike on a convoy of Kurdish forces on Saturday near Khanaqin, an area of eastern Iraq that Kurds have moved into.
It is not clear if the attack, which left six people dead, specifically targeted the Kurds or was a case of mistaken identity.
As the crisis continues, the US has deployed aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush to the Gulf.
Iran has warned that "any foreign military intervention" would complicate the crisis, while Germany warned of a potential "proxy war" in the region.
Meanwhile, the former UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, told AFP the international community's negligence of the conflict in neighbouring Syria was to blame.
Mr Brahimi said the international community "unfortunately neglected the Syrian problem and did not help to resolve it. This is the result".
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