FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 16
BASRA - U.S. or British forces launched an air strike killing four militants who fired at Iraqi troops in the southern city of Basra early on Wednesday, a British military spokesman said.
SULAIMANIYA - Turkish bombing of northern Iraq on Tuesday caused no casualties among PKK Kurdish rebel fighters, a spokesman for the rebel group said.
TIKRIT - Police killed seven members of al Qaeda and arrested three other suspects in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad in a security operation on April 12, the U.S. military said.
ANBAR - Two U.S. Marines were killed on April 14 when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Anbar province in western Iraq, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD - Police found three bodies in different areas of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.
KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded two guards for a government department in the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.
(Compiled by Khalid Al-Ansary, editing by Dean Yates)
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