FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2030 GMT on Monday.

* denotes new or updated items:

* BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack on his vehicle in northeastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

TIKRIT - A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in northern Salahuddin province, the U.S. military said.

NEAR MOSUL - 12 members of Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga security force, part of the Iraqi army, were killed and two wounded when a car bomb hit their truck west of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

TAL AFAR - A suicide-bomber blew himself up at a Shi'ite funeral in Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, killing four civilians and wounding 22, the local mayor said. The U.S. military said the attack had killed 3 and wounded 35.

MOSUL - A car bomb detonated in Mosul, killing two civilians and wounding six, police said.

BASRA - Iraqi security forces freed a British journalist in the southern city of Basra. Richard Butler, a photographer on assignment for the U.S. network CBS, was seized by gunmen from his hotel room in the centre of the city two months ago.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed six gunmen in a battle in Sadr City, east Baghdad, overnight, the U.S. military said. U.S. forces returned fire from helicopters and tanks after they were attacked by gunmen using rocket-propelled grenades, the statement said.