FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 30

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 5 p.m. EDT on Sunday.

NAJAF - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to stop battling government forces after six days of fighting in Iraq's south. The statement was read to journalists by his aides in Najaf.

HILLA -Iraqi security forces arrested 101 suspected militants during several raids and clashes across Hilla on Saturday, police said.

DHULUIYA - Gunmen attacked a police patrol killing five policemen and wounding two civilians in Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - One U.S. soldier was killed by roadside bomb attack targeting his vehicle north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

MOSUL - Three policemen were killed and four others wounded in an ambush targeting their checkpoint in southern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, Nineveh province security spokesman Brigadier-General Khalid Abdul-Sattar said.

MOSUL - Police said they found a decapitated body in western Mosul.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb attack killed one Iraqi soldier and wounded two others when it struck their vehicle in the Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad, police said.

SANIYA - A suicide car bomber killed seven people, including three U.S.-allied neighbourhood patrol volunteers, and wounded eight in an attack on a checkpoint in Saniya, west of Baiji in northern Iraq, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three people were killed and 13 wounded after a mortar bomb hit a barber shop in Baghdad's Karrada district, police said.

BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. helicopter airstrike killed 12 suspects in clashes in northern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. helicopter airstrike killed two gunmen responsible for a roadside bomb attack in the Fadaliya area of Iraq's New Baghdad district, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Six people were wounded, including four civilians, in clashes between Iraqi security forces and Mehdi Army gunmen in Baghdad's Ur neighbourhood, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three police officers were wounded when their police station was attacked by gunmen in the New Baghdad neighbourhood, police said.