FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 8
Source: Reuters
Jan 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1300 GMT on Monday: * Indicates new or updated item * RAMADI - An official in a tribal council in the western province of Anbar said an insurgent leader from a group called Ansar al Sunna had been captured and two of his aides, both from Yemen, were killed on Sunday near Ramadi. BAGHDAD - The Defence Ministry said its forces killed 23 suspects on Sunday in an operation in a Sunni Arab neighbourhood where 27 bodies had been found by police on Saturday. The ministry had already reported killing 30 people on the first day of the operation in the Haifa Street area. RAMADI - A suicide truck bomber killed two policemen and wounded three more at a checkpoint in Ramadi, capital of Iraq's western Anbar province, police said. BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed in Baghdad on Sunday when his patrol came under small arms fire, the U.S. military said on Monday. TIKRIT - A U.S. soldier was killed during combat operations in the province of Salahaddin on Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday. SAMARRA - Gunmen kidnapped a senior tribal chief in Salahaddin province named Naji Hussein Jubara, seizing him from his car on the road north of Samarra, police said. Jubara is the brother of the deputy governor of the province. BAGHDAD - Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying dozens of cleaners and other workers from the Shi'ite Sadr City district in Baghdad to the city's airport, killing at least 15 people and wounding 15 others, a hospital source said. Police and Interior Ministry sources put the death toll at four killed and nine wounded. BAGHDAD - A bomb planted under a car killed two people and wounded two others in the southern Zaafaraniya district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a bus carrying pilgrims and wounded three of them in southeastern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed a policeman and wounded two, including a civilian, police said. BAGHDAD - Iraqi army troops killed 26 insurgents and wounded 43 others during the past 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed six members of a Shi'ite family while they were packing their furniture to move from their neighbourhood in Doura district in southern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS BAGHDAD - Anfal trial for genocide against Kurds resumes in Baghdad for the first time since Saddam was hanged.
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