April 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1745 GMT on Sunday:
* denotes new or updated item.
* BAGHDAD - Police found 11 bodies in different areas of Baghdad in the past 24 hours.
* BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds landed in the Abu Dsheir district in southern Baghdad killing two people and wounding five, police said.
MOSUL - Gunmen killed 23 textile factory workers from the minority Yazidi sect after forcing them out of a minibus in the northern city of Mosul, police and hospital sources said.
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said it carried out air strikes on a known al Qaeda meeting location south of Baghdad, killing 15 militants. Ground forces later killed another three militants in the operation, the military said in a statement.
BAGHDAD - A car bombed parked near a primary school in the Saidiya district in southern Baghdad killed six people and wounded 37, police said.
BAGHDAD - One U.S. soldier was killed by small arms fire in western Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said. Another soldier was killed when gunmen fired on a base southwest of Baghdad on Saturday night.
KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded six civilians southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.
BAGHDAD - Two suicide bombers rammed their vehicles into a police station in southwestern Baghdad, killing 12 people and wounding 95, police said. Most of the dead were civilians, police said.
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed four insurgents and arrested 93 others during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.
BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed in Bab al-Muadham area, wounding four people, police said.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen opened fire at a vehicle carrying civil servants, wounding three of them, in the Doura district of Baghdad, police said.
MAHMUDIYA - A mortar round killed a person and wounded three others in the town of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
BASRA - British forces raided two houses in eastern Basra, killing a man who was taking a rifle from a cupboard believing his intention was to open fire upon them, the British military said. Two other people were arrested and a number of weapons were seized.
BAGHDAD - The bodies of 11 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.
KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two policemen in Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad, police said.
MADAEN - Two car bombs killed one person and wounded five others in Madaen, about 45 km south of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said.
BAGHDAD - A mortar round which landed in a residential district killed two people and wounded two others in the southern Doura district of Baghdad, police said.
* BASRA - Abu Mujahid al-Maliki, secretary of the Hezbollah Movement in Iraq, escaped an assassination attempt when gunmen threw a grenade at his car. Security committee head Hakim al-Mayahi said Maliki, who is also the head of the de-Baathification committee in Basra, was wounded along with one of his guards. Another guard was killed in the attack in Basra on Saturday.