VIOLENCE in Iraq has killed eight people, among them seven police as an al-Qaeda front group claimed a wave of attacks that killed dozens the day before.
The country is witnessing its worst violence since 2008, when it was emerging from a bloody sectarian conflict.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that Iraq is "on the brink," and the interior ministry warned of civil war.
On Tuesday, gunmen killed three police and wounded two in an attack on a checkpoint south of Baghdad, while bombings in Kirkuk province, north of the capital, killed a policeman and a civilian, and wounded four people.
And gunmen killed three more policemen in the northern city of Mosul.
Security forces are frequently targeted by militants opposed to the government.
The attacks came as al-Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed a wave of attacks that killed some 60 people the day before.
"Security and military detachments of the state of Baghdad and the south on Monday ... simultaneously hit targets that were surveyed and chosen specifically," a statement posted on jihadist forums said.
The statement said the violence, which struck the capital and areas to its south, was the beginning of a new campaign dubbed "Harvesting the Soldiers".
The al-Qaeda front group said last week that brazen assaults on two Iraqi prisons marked the end of its previous campaign, called "Breaking the Walls".
At least 53 people were killed in the attacks, and more than 500 inmates, among them senior al-Qaeda members, managed to escape.
"Iraq is at another crossroads," UN chief Ban was quoted as saying in a statement released by a spokesman.
"Its political leaders have a clear responsibility to bring the country back from the brink, and to leave no space to those who seek to exploit the political stalemate through violence and terror."
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