FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - Two car bombs killed 32 people and wounded 28 shortly before dusk in Bayaa, a mainly Shi'ite district in southwestern Baghdad, police said.

* A roadside bomb outside a Sunni mosque in the town of Abi Khasib, five miles south of Basra, killed four people, police and a Sunni political party said.

SHIRQAT - Two car bombs killed seven people and wounded five in the town of Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The first one targeted a police patrol in a crowded market and the second exploded near a police station.

MOSUL - A suicide truck bomber targeting a court under construction killed three workers and wounded 47 others in Mosul, 390 kilometers (240 miles) north of Baghdad, Nineveh police chief Major-General Wathiq al-Hamadani said.

MOSUL - Two car bombs at army checkpoints in the east of Mosul killed one person and wounded two. Police said they killed another would-be suicide bomber and defused his explosives.

BAGHDAD - A U.S soldier was killed during a small-arms fire attack while conducting combat operations in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed seven insurgents and arrested 47 during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.