Bombings and shootings across Iraq on Tuesday killed 10 people and wounded 42 others. Violence escalated after an Al Qaeda-affiliated group based in Iraq claimed responsibility for a wave of bombings across Iraq on Monday that killed 60 and injured 200. 

Street cleaners remove debris on the road at the site of a car bomb attack on July 29, 2013. (Photo: Reuters)

The group, called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, was formed earlier this year. Casualties in fresh attacks have brought the total death toll in Iraq in July to 830. More than 3,000 Iraqi people were killed so far this year. Iraq has seen the worst eruption of violence in five years, raising fears that recent clashes would bring the country back to a full-blown civil war that peaked in 2006 and 2007.