FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, April 27

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1630 GMT on Sunday.

* BAGHDAD - At least eight rockets or mortars struck the Green Zone fortified government and diplomatic compound in Baghdad in a volley launched under the cover of heavy dust storms, police said. At least 14 struck other parts of the capital, killing two people and wounding 18.

* BAGHDAD - The U.S. military announced the following incidents in Sadr city:

-- A helicopter fired a missile killing two fighters planting a roadside bomb late on Saturday.

-- A drone aircraft spotted two armed fighters and fired a rocket killing both late on Saturday

-- A helicopter killed one fighter planting a roadside bomb after midnight.

-- A helicopter killed a fighter who fired on U.S. troops on Sunday morning.

-- U.S. troops returned fire against a fighter who shot at them, killing him.

BAGHDAD - Ten people were killed including a woman and two children, and 42 others wounded, some of them women and children, in fighting between Shi'ite Mehdi Army militiamen and U.S.-backed government forces on Saturday night in eastern Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs targeting Iraqi Army soldiers on a foot patrol exploded within minutes of each other, killing one soldier and wounding six people including two civilians in Mansour district, western Baghdad, police said.

NEAR TUZ KHURMATO - Gunmen killed one Iraqi soldier in a drive-by shooting on Saturday near Tuz Khurmato, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed a policeman just outside his house in central Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

NINEVEH PROVINCE - A roadside bomb blast near a police patrol killed two policemen and wounded five others including two civilians on Saturday in Nineveh Province, northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

NEAR BAIJI - One body of an off-duty policeman was found on Saturday north of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay, editing by Tim Cocks)