More than 50 people, most of them soldiers and police, have been killed in attacks in Iraq.
Two attacks on security forces in Mosul killed 33 people, officials said.
Hours earlier, gunmen attacked two prisons near Baghdad - Taji to the north and Abu Ghraib to the west - killing at least 25 members of the security forces.
It is unclear who was behind the attacks, but there has been a recent escalation in violence across Iraq.
More than 200 people have been killed since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and 2,500 Iraqis have died in violent attacks since April, according to UN figures released this month.
Prison raidsThe prison attacks were launched at about 21:30 (18:30 GMT) on Sunday night.
Gunmen fired mortar rounds at Taji prison, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, and a suicide car bomber then attacked the main gate.
According to the authorities, security forces reacted quickly and cut off any escape route from the prisons at Taji and Abu Ghraib.
In the past, several attacks on prisons have resulted in dozens of inmates being freed, as well as records and precious information about them being destroyed or stolen.
But in Mosul, the army took a painful hit, another reminder that the northern city remains one of the most dangerous for security forces in Iraq.
It is not just Mosul, however, and not just the security forces that are suffering. Continuous waves of attacks across the country have exposed the government's chronic failure to secure the country.
At Abu Ghraib jail a group of policemen were killed during a similar mortar attack.
Fighting continued throughout the night, and the military deployed aircraft around the two prisons.
Islamist militants have claimed that some prisoners were able to escape during the attacks, but officials deny this.
In Mosul, on Monday morning, a man drove a vehicle packed with explosives up to a military convoy.
"A suicide bomber was following the convoy and when it stopped in the middle of road he detonated his vehicle right behind it," a policeman told Reuters news agency.
A group of soldiers and at least two passers-by were among the dead, officials said.
A second attack was launched on a group of policemen, several of whom were killed when gunmen stormed their checkpoint.
Mosul, 360 km (220 miles) north-west of Baghdad, is one of the Iraq's major flashpoints.
Insurgent groups such as al-Qaeda have found Mosul a fertile recruiting ground.
It is the capital of the Sunni-dominated Nineveh province, and many Iraqi Sunnis resent the Shia-led government, correspondents say.
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