Oct 19 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 1630 GMT on Thursday:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*KHALIS - A roadside bomb ripped through a busy market, killing 10 people and injuring 20 shortly before the evening Iftar meal when Muslims break their fasting in the month of Ramadan, Interior Ministry sources said. The bomb hit the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad.

*BAQUBA - Three Iraqi policemen were killed in clashes with gunmen near the volatile town of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Six suicide bombers in vehicles, including one in a fuel truck, attacked Iraqi police and U.S. patrols, and insurgents fired mortars and clashed with police, U.S. officials and police said. The violence killed at least 20 people in the city 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad.

KIRKUK - A suicide car bomber killed at least eight people and wounded 70 others in the oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad. It targeted Iraqi army troops collecting salaries from a bank, police said.

KIRKUK - A suicide car bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded four more some 35 km (22 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police and the army said.

KIRKUK - A car bomb killed one person and wounded eight others in Kirkuk, police said.

NEAR KHALIS - Gunmen killed four labourers and wounded four others in a drive-by shooting near the town of Khalis, 80 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed five people -- three policemen and two civilians -- and wounded 12, nine of them civilians, in Baghdad's southern Dora district, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked a police station and killed four policemen and wounded 10 civilians, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb and a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed a civilian and wounded five others, including two policemen, in the New Baghdad district in the east of the capital, an Interior Ministry source said.

MAHMUDIYA - The bodies of five people were found with gunshot wounds in the town of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

MAHMUDIYA - Several mortar rounds landed in a residential district of the town of Mahmudiya, killing two people and wounding three from the same family, police said.

NEAR MAHMUDIYA - Several mortar rounds landed on a town near Mahmudiya, killing two people and wounding four others, police said.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded a civilian in Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed an employee in the Ministry of Higher Education in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot dead police Colonel Basim Qasim in Baghdad's southern Saydiya district, an Interior Ministry source said.

ANBAR PROVINCE - A U.S. soldier died on Wednesday from wounds sustained in combat in the western Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs wounded two people near the Iraqi National Theatre in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed a man as he left his house in Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeted a police patrol and wounded three policemen in the city of Kirkuk, police said.

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

*BAGHDAD - The top American commander in Iraq, General George Casey, has ordered a review of a U.S.-led crackdown in Baghdad, a spokesman said on Thursday, as reinforcements have failed to ease violence and the U.S. death toll has spiked this month.

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