Feb 10 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1730 GMT on Sunday. * denotes new or updated items. * BALAD - A car bomb killed 23 people and wounded another 25 in a market in the Iraqi town of Balad on Sunday, the U.S. military said. A Iraqi security official put the death toll at 33, including women and children, with 35 wounded. * MOSUL - A suicide bomber, using a fuel tanker, killed four Iraqi soldiers and wounded seven others in a blast in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. * BAGHDAD - Ten bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Sunday, police said. Five of them were found in a grave in outskirts of northern Baghdad. BALAD RUZ - Two policemen were killed and 17 people, including 10 policemen wounded, when 10 mortar rounds hit a police station in Balad Ruz town, 50 km (30 miles) southwest of Baquba, police said. NEAR KIRKUK - A suicide car bomb blast aimed at a convoy of U.S.-backed neighbourhood policemen wounded three members including the unit's leader, southwest of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. NEAR HILLA - U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces arrested two suspected Shi'ite militia just north of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. KUT - Police arrested a senior al Qaeda member in Kut, 170 km (105 mile) southeast of Baghdad, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said. NINEVEH PROVINCE - Five people, including a woman, were killed in clashes when gunmen attacked villages manned by neighbourhood policemen in the northern province of Nineveh, police said.
Demonstrators protest in favour of retaining Iraq's old national flag (background) in Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, February 10, 2008. The new flag, approved for a year after ...
