FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2200 GMT on Tuesday:

FALLUJA - A U.S. helicopter crashed on a routine flight near Falluja west of Baghdad, killing five service members, the U.S. military said.

* MOSUL - Three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attacked members of Iraq's ancient Yazidi sect in three residential compounds west of Mosul, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 people, the Iraqi military said.

BAGHDAD - Fifteen bodies were found around Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar attack killed two people and wounded four in Baghdad's northern Ur district, police.

KHALIS - The bodies of 15 Sunni Arab men were found shot and dumped near a petrol station in the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

TAJI - Ten people were killed and six wounded when a suicide bomber blew up a fuel tanker on a bridge near the town of Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The bridge collapsed.

BAGHDAD - One U.S. soldier was killed and three wounded during combat operations in western Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said its troops killed four members of the Mehdi Army militia and detained eight others during a raid in Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad. Hospital officials said a 5-year-old girl and her father were among three people shot dead in the incident.

MOSUL - Iraqi and U.S. forces freed six hostages from a suspected al Qaeda prison during a raid in Mosul, the U.S. military said. The hostages, Kurdish and Christian men, had been bound and blindfolded for more than two weeks. Each was being held for $100,000 ransom.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained 16 suspected insurgents during operations targeting foreign fighters and bombing networks in Baquba, Taji, Balad and Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi and U.S. troops detained 12 suspected Mehdi Army militiamen during raids in Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two policemen and a civilian in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two civilians were wounded by a roadside bomb in the Yarmouk district of western Baghdad, police said.

SUWAYRA - Gunmen stormed the house of police officer Aqil Radhi Idan, killing his pregnant wife, brother and son, in the town of Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

NINEVEH - Three U.S. soldiers died on Monday from injuries sustained in an explosion near their vehicle in Nineveh province, the U.S. military said.