FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 11:30 EDT on Friday.

* denotes new or updated items:

NEAR KIRKUK - A roadside bomb killed at least two Iraqi soldiers and wounded at least one other in Rashad, southwest of Kirkuk city, police said. Kirkuk is 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - A bomb planted in a car killed one person and wounded another in the Qadissiya district of western Baghdad, police said.

DHULUIYA - Iraqi soldiers killed four militants and arrested eight others during fighting in the town of Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, an Iraqi army official said. Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded.

KUT - The body of a man was found, with apparent signs of torture, in Kut, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Nine people, including three Iraqi soldiers, were wounded by a series of car bombs on Thursday in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Police reported the discovery of the bodies of three women in Mosul on Thursday. Two of the women appeared to have been shot.

MOSUL - Gunmen shot and killed an off-duty policeman on Thursday in central Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said it had captured more than 20 suspected insurgents and individuals believed to be linked to Sunni Islamist group al Qaeda near Mosul and in Baghdad.

* BALAD - On July 18, Iraqi soldiers captured two men west of Tarmiya, 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad, who were suspected to be connected to the deaths of four U.S. Marines, the U.S. military said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay; editing by Missy Ryan)