FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 12 p.m. EST on Wednesday.

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* BAGHDAD - A car bomb near a Shi'ite mosque in central Baghdad's Karrada district killed 15 people and wounded 33, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Four bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad, police said.

* SULAIMANIYA - Bombs destroyed a shop selling alcohol in the town of Sayyid Sadiq near the Iranian border southeast of Sulaimaniya, 330 km (205 miles) northeast of Baghdad, on Tuesday, police said.

KIRKUK - A parked car bomb killed two people in southern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. The bomb targeted the convoy of a police commander, Brigadier-General Kakamen Hameed, who was among 10 people wounded. One of his bodyguards was among the two killed.

MOSUL - A parked car bomb killed one civilian and wounded seven others, including a policeman, in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two policemen were wounded by a roadside bomb targeting their patrol in Baghdad's western Yarmouk district, police said.

DHULUIYA - One body was found with gunshot wounds in the town of Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAQUBA - A parked car bomb killed five people and wounded 13 on a road near a number of government offices in the city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

SALAHUDDIN PROVINCE - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two others wounded when gunmen opened fire after a roadside bomb exploded in Salahuddin province on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

WASIT PROVINCE - Iraqi security forces arrested a suspected al Qaeda militant with three others believed to be involved in killing civilians in Wasit province, southeast of Baghdad, a security source said. A Katyusha rocket launcher that had targeted a Georgian military position in the town of Numaniya, 120 km (72 miles) south of Baghdad, was also found, the source said.

ANBAR PROVINCE - One U.S. soldier was killed and two injured by an explosion in Anbar province in western Iraq on Monday, the U.S. military said.

KUT - Gunmen killed a sheikh in a drive by-shooting in western Kut, 170 km (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.