Nov 15 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1600 GMT on Thursday.

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. forces backed by aircraft killed 25 suspected insurgents in operations targeting al Qaeda in Tarmiya near Taji late on Tuesday and early on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. The head of a Sunni Arab tribal group said U.S. aircraft had bombed his men at checkpoints north of Baghdad, killing 45 pro-U.S. fighters.

* BAGHDAD - Six bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

KIRKUK - Six people, including two policemen, were killed and 17 wounded, including four policemen, when a car bomb targeted the head of the police emergency unit, Khatab Omar, in the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (150 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Omar was among the wounded.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained 10 suspected insurgents during operations targeting insurgent networks in central Iraq, the U.S. military said.

* BAGHDAD - Iraqi forces and bomb disposal experts detonated a roadside bomb in Nidhal street in central Baghdad, Brigadier-General Qassim Moussawi told Reuters. Two civilians were wounded.

DIYALA - One U.S. soldier was killed and four others wounded by a bomb blast in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, The U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a woman principal of a high school in a drive-by shooting in the Shi'ite district of Kadhimiya in northern Baghdad, police said.

MAHAWEEL - Police said they found the body of a 25-year-old woman who was shot and tortured in the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (45 miles) south of Baghdad.

ISKANDARIYA - The head of a Sunni tribe was killed and 10 members of the tribe wounded on Wednesday when a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives infiltrated their meeting in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. A car bomb also exploded outside the meeting. Earlier police said two were killed and six wounded.

MUQDADIYA - Suspected al Qaeda militants attacked the house of Kadhim al-Mehdawi, the head of a Sunni tribe and kidnapped his 13-year-old son on Monday in the town of Muqdadiya, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police and his relatives said. (Editing by Paul Tait; Baghdad newsroom)

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