Dec 15 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1300 GMT on Monday. * denotes new or updated item. * KHAN DHARI - Nine policemen were killed and 31 wounded when a suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives at their checkpoint in Khan Dhari, in the western outskirts of Baghdad, police said. Another police source put the death toll at three, with 30 wounded. * TARMIYA - A female suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest in the town of Tarmiya, 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad, killing the leader of a U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol, police said. The man's son was also wounded. MOSUL - Gunmen killed seven people from a single family, members of the minority Yazidi sect, when they stormed into their home in the town of Sinjar, west of Mosul. Mosul is 390 km (240 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. MOSUL - Gunmen killed a woman in her home in eastern Mosul, police said. (Reporting by Aseel Kami)
Women buy fish at a market in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad November 26, 2008. For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqis ...
