June 26 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1930 GMT on Thursday:

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* GARMA - A suicide bomber killed 20 people at a tribal council meeting in Garma, 30 km (20 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. Three U.S. Marines and two interpreters were among the dead, the U.S. military said.

MOSUL - A car bomb killed 18 people and wounded 80 near the Nineveh provincial governor's office in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, U.S. forces said.

SULAIMANIYA PROVINCE - Two militants were killed when a roadside bomb they were trying to plant blew up in a village near the town of Penjwin in Sulaimaniya province, about 300 km (190 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police Brigadier-General Hassan Nuri said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier on Wednesday in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

TUZ KHURMATO - An Iraqi soldier was killed when U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a village and clashed with gunmen near Tuz Khurmato, 170 km (105 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen broke into a woman's house and shot her dead in eastern Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in western Mosul, wounding 3 people, including one policeman, police said.

MOSUL - A parked car bomb exploded near a U.S. patrol in eastern Mosul, wounding one Iraqi civilian, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained the leader of a bomb-making cell in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed two militants, including an al- Qaeda cell leader, and captured 15 suspected militants on Thursday in various operations in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

(Compiled by Khalid al-Ansary, editing by Tim Cocks)

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