Two car bombs exploded almost simultaneously in the majority Shi'ite districts of Talibiya and Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding 15, Iraqi police sources told the Voices of Iraq News Agency (VOI).

Police said a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near the popular Habayibna restaurant in Talibiya at an intersection leading into Sadr City, killing and wounding ten people. Commercial stores and parked vehicles in the area were severely damaged as a result of the explosion, Eye Iraq Media reported. The Habayibna restaurant has been repeatedly targeted by car bombings over the last four years.

A second car bomb attack targeted the Uraiba open market in Sadr City, killing two people, according to VOI.

In northwestern Iraq, a suicide truck bomber killed nine people and wounded 22 in an attack on a police station at the town of Rabi'a near the Syrian border on Thursday, wire agencies reported.

"The bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the building after police opened fire on him," Brigadier General Mohammed al-Waga told AFP. Police also said five Britons were among the wounded and had been evacuated for treatment, according to Reuters. It was not immediately clear why they had been in the area, but many Britons are employed in Iraq as security contractors.

The Iraqiyoun News Agency in Mosul reported that a second car bomb also targeted a U.S. military base in Rabi'a (120 km northwest of Mosul), with no news of casualties.