“Iraq Islamic State Group, affiliated to al- Qaeda in the country, claimed the responsibility of Monday attacks in 13 Iraqi cities, Brasa website quoted a website of al-Qaeda as saying, adding that the operations were conducted under the name of “Destroying the Wall.”

“The time we announced establishing the Islamic State we did not lie and now we do not lie when we claims the State is stable,” the group said in a statement.

The Monday attacks were the bloodiest terrorist attacks in the last year.

The attacks were targeted at security forces when 15 forces were killed in Salahadin, one of the sites of the attacks.