FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 19

May 19 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2000 GMT on Monday:

* denotes new or updated item

* BA'AJ - Gunmen killed 11 police recruits in an attack on a minibus near the northern Iraqi town of Ba'aj, the town's mayor said.

* TIKRIT - Abdul Khaleq al-Sabawi, head of al Qaeda's military organisation in Mosul, was arrested near Tikrit, in Salahuddin province, a Defence Ministry spokesman said.

* BAGHDAD - Lieutenant-Colonel Ahmed al-Nori, head of police intelligence in the Rusafa area of northern Baghdad, was killed by gunmen who attacked his car on Sunday in Sadr City, in Baghdad, police said. His driver was wounded.

* BAGHDAD - The head of a police station in the Qouds area of Baghdad was wounded in a roadside bomb attack, police said.

* ZAAFARANIYA - A police captain based in the Ministry of Interior was wounded by gunmen in Zaafaraniya, south of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Three police officers were wounded in a gun attack on a car in Baghdad, police said.

NINEVEH PROVINCE - The Iraq army killed one militant and arrested 78 others in Nineveh Province, in northern Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

SUWAYRA - Iraqi police recovered two bodies with gunshot wounds and signs of torture from the Tigris river in Suwayra, 50 km (30 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said. They said one of the bodies was beheaded.

SUQ AL-SHIYUKH - A local Iraqi police chief was killed when a bomb placed under his bed exploded while he slept, in Suq al-Shiyukh, 320 km (200 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers killed an attacker placing a roadside bomb north of Baghdad and seized munitions in others districts on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

NEAR RUTBA - Two dead bodies were found with gunshot wounds and signs of torture in a deserted area near Rutba, 360 km (220 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

SULAIMANIYA PROVINCE - Iranian artillery shells were fired at the border area of Iraq's Sulaimaniya province. There were no casualties, a local government official said.

BAGHDAD - One Katyusha rocket wounded five people near Hurriya district in northwestern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three people in Doura district in southern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi army forces surrounded a Shi'ite mosque and arrested five men and confiscated weapons in Shaab district in northern Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.

TIKRIT - A car bomb killed one person and wounded six others in central Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three bodies were found in various districts of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

BASRA - Gunmen killed two policemen in a drive-by shooting on a police patrol on Sunday in central Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

SALAHUDDIN PROVINCE - One U.S. soldier was killed on Sunday when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers killed three militants after coming under attack on Sunday in Sadr City, in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay, editing by Adrian Croft)