FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, July 20

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0800 GMT on Friday:

* Denotes new of updated items.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. forces kill three suspected militants and detain 44 others in operations in south Baghdad on Friday, the military said.

* DHULUIYA - Gunmen kill two people in a drive by shooting in Dhuluiya, 70 km (43 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Two U.S. soldiers killed in separate attacks in Iraq on Thursday, the military said on Friday. One solider was killed in a roadside bomb in Baghdad Province, and the other was killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad.

* BAGHDAD - One Iraqi policeman wounded by a roadside bomb in the Mansour district of west Baghdad, police said.

BASRA - Three British servicemen were killed on Thursday by a mortar round that struck their base in the southern city of Basra, the military said.

BAGHADAD - Seventeen bodies were found dumped in various parts of the capital on Thursday, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. troops detained a man suspected of links with Iran in a raid on Thursday near Baquba, north of Baghdad, the military said. He is suspected of helping smuggle projectile roadside bombs into Iraq from Iran.