Aug 9 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2015 GMT on Saturday. * denotes new or updated items. * BAGHDAD - One U.S. soldier was killed and two were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their patrol in Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said in a statement. SHIRQAT - Iraqi soldiers killed three people, including a woman, and wounded two others on Friday when they fired at a car speeding towards their checkpoint in Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. JURF AL-SAKHAR - Militants killed a member of a U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol and wounded two others when they attacked their checkpoint on Friday in Jurf al-Sakhar, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. TUZ KHURMATO - Gunmen shot dead a man on Friday outside his house in the town of Tuz Khurmato, 170 km (105 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed two militants and detained 14 suspects while targeting al Qaeda networks in central and northern parts of Iraq on Friday and Saturday, the U.S. military said. (Compiled by Aws Qusay)
A wounded Iraqi soldier is helped by a U.S. soldier (L) from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment and another Iraqi soldier at the site where an explosive device went of inside ...
