FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq
(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) on Monday.
* BAGHDAD - U.S. helicopters fired Hellfire missiles into Sadr City and the New Baghdad district, where a fixed-wing fighter also dropped a bomb on a mortar firing position, the U.S. military said.
* BAGHDAD - Nine people died from a missile strike in the Amin district of eastern Baghdad, Iraqi police said.
* BAGHDAD - A helicopter strike in the Sadr City slum killed four people and injured five, hospital sources said.
* BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed by small arms fire while on patrol in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi Army killed five militants and arrested 58 others during last 24 hours in different areas across Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.
BASRA - A roadside bomb targeted the convoy of interior ministry spokesman Major-General Abdul-Karim Khalaf, wounding two of his guards in northern Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.
BASRA - An explosion destroyed a house in Iraq's southern city of Basra overnight and Iraqi police said eight people had died.
BAGHDAD - One mortar bomb landed on a sport club in eastern Baghdad, wounding two people, police said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb blast near a police patrol wounded five people in the New Baghdad district, in eastern Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - Two separate roadside bombs wounded 10 people including five policemen in the Zayyouna district, in eastern Baghdad, police said.
(Compiled by Aws Qusay, editing by Noah Barkin)
