FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 3:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.

* denotes a new or updated item:

* TAL AFAR - A car bomb killed 15 people and wounded 90 at a market in Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. The U.S. military put the death toll at 12, with 18 wounded.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two policemen and two civilians in central Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two civilians in Ghazaliya, western Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Police said they found a body in Baghdad.

MOSUL - A car bomb killed two civilians and wounded nine others in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed an Iraqi soldier when they opened fire on a primary school he was guarding in Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - A suicide car bomber targeting a U.S. military patrol wounded five Iraqi civilians in eastern Mosul, police said. No one in the patrol was hurt, they said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb wounded two civilians in eastern Mosul, police said. The attack apparently targeted a U.S. military patrol which it missed.

MOSUL - A mortar round wounded two civilians when it landed in southeastern Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said it captured 16 militants including a senior al Qaeda fighter during operations in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces captured seven suspected "special groups" militants in and around Baghdad, the U.S. military said. The military uses the term for rogue elements in the Mehdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

ANBAR PROVINCE - A U.S. Marine died of wounds sustained in action in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad, on Monday, a U.S. military statement said.

ISKANDARIYA - A roadside bomb wounded a member of a U.S.-backed neighborhood patrol in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

KERBALA - Iraqi security forces captured three wanted militants north of Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad, the commander of Kerbala security operations said.