April 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1930 on Wednesday. * denotes a new or updated item. * BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died after being injured during a patrol in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said. DHULUIYA - A suicide bomber killed at least five people inside a mosque in Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, also wounding 15 people, police said. MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in a crowded market wounded eight people, including a policeman, in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. NEAR MOSUL - A Kurdish Peshmerga leader escaped death when a bomb in a parked car exploded near his convoy in the small town of Zummar, northwest of Mosul, police said. No casualties were reported. NEAR MOSUL - Also in Zummar, a suicide car bomber attacked a security checkpoint run by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Police sources in Mosul said one of the Kurdish soldiers opened fire at the car and it detonated before reaching its target. KIRKUK - Gunmen in a car kidnapped a judge while he was heading to his office in southwestern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police brigadier general Sarhat Qader said. MOSUL - A suicide car bomber on Tuesday attacked a military checkpoint and seriously wounded two soldiers in eastern Mosul, police said. BAGHDAD - A bomb on Tuesday killed a policeman and wounded three others when it struck their patrol in the Amiriya district of western Baghdad, police said.
A view of Kirkuk city, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad April 19, 2009. Tensions run high in Iraq's oil-rich city of Kirkuk, which minority Kurds claim as their own, ...
