FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 12
June 12 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1730 GMT on Thursday:
* denotes new or updated item
* TIKRIT - Several members of American-backed neighbourhood security units called "Sons of Iraq" repelled an attack on their homes by al Qaeda fighters on Wednesday, killing four insurgents, U.S. forces said. Three "Sons of Iraq" members were wounded in the clash, near the town of Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, they said.
BAGHDAD - A bomb inside a parked car struck a police commando patrol, killing one policeman and two civilians, and wounding 15 people in the Aalawi district of central Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed four suspected militants and arrested nine others in an operation against al-Qaeda in central and northern Iraq on Wednesday and Thursday, the U.S. military said.
KUT - Iraqi security forces arrested a member of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's office in Kut, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday, police said.
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said special groups carried out a bomb attack on a U.S. military convoy that killed six Iraqis on Wednesday in the Kadhamiya district in northwestern Baghdad. The blast wounded seven Iraqis and two U.S. soldiers.
"Special Groups" is a U.S. military term for Shi'ite militants backed by Iran. A police report on the same incident on Wednesday said that five minibus passengers were killed and 10 wounded when a bomb exploded near the vehicle.
BASRA - Iraqi special forces captured a suspected member of special groups in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
MOSUL - The Iraqi Army captured two suspected members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD - Nine police commandos were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol on Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - Six people were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying Sameer al-Waili, a major-general in the Interior Ministry, near Beirut Square in northeastern Baghdad, police said. Waili was not harmed but three of his guards were among the wounded.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen threw a grenade at an Iraqi army checkpoint, wounding six soldiers in western Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - Five people were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a local official in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad, police said. He was not harmed but three of the wounded were his guards.
BAGHDAD - Three bodies of men were found in different districts of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
AL-SAADIYA - A roadside bomb killed two members of the Kurdish forces and wounded four when it exploded near their patrol on Wednesday in the town of al-Saadiya, near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.
FALLUJA - The local headquarters of the Iraqi Islamic Party, one of three Sunni parties in the Iraqi Accordance Front, was damaged when five bombs planted inside the building exploded in the city of Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police and a member of the party said. One guard was wounded.
(Compiled by Aseel Kami)
