FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Feb 16
Source: Reuters
Feb 16 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1730 GMT on Friday: * denotes new or updated item *BAGHDAD - Eleven bodies were found in Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said. *BAGHDAD - The U.S. military denied reports that the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al- Masri, had been wounded in a clash with Iraqi troops north of Baghdad. KIRKUK - Three guards of Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari were killed and five others wounded on Thursday when gunmen at a fake checkpoint attacked their convoy in the village of Sulaiman Beq in Salahaddin province, police said. Zebari was not in the convoy, police added. Two gunmen were killed in the incident. BAGHDAD - A sniper shot dead an Iraqi soldier in the Sunni- dominated district of Adhamiya on Thursday, police said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a policeman in the Amil district of Baghdad on Thursday, police said. KIRKUK - One civilian was killed and three wounded in a roadside bomb attack on Thursday in the northern city of Kirkuk. MOSUL - Four bodies were found on Thursday in the northern city of Mosul, police said. Three of them were policemen.
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