Officials in Baghdad have said they want U.S. military training help for their security forces. U.S. officials are trying to determine how to help Iraq develop its abilities to fight terrorism.
A suicide car bombing Monday killed at least 19 people at the gates of a prison north of Baghdad. And 15 people died from a series of explosions on Saturday.
The trip to Iraq is Biden's eighth since taking office. The visit was added to a previously-scheduled trip to Turkey and Greece.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is scheduled to visit Washington on December 12.
All U.S. forces are to leave Iraq by December 31, under a security agreement the two nations approved in 2008.
About 14,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq, down from about 170,000 at the war's height.
Almost 4,500 American service members have died in Iraq since the U.S. invaded in March, 2003. The Iraq war is one of the longest military conflicts in U.S. history.
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