FACTBOX - Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 7:30 p.m. British time on Wednesday.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military reported the following engagements in Shi'ite areas of eastern Baghdad overnight.

-- U.S. troops were attacked with rocket-propelled grenades after a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad. Soldiers returned fire, killing six gunmen.

-- An unmanned drone spotted two militants putting a mortar tube into a vehicle and then driving off in northeastern Baghdad. The drone fired a Hellfire missile, killing the two.

-- Soldiers saw a militant planting a roadside bomb in northeastern Baghdad. Soldiers shot and killed the militant.

-- Soldiers killed one militant after coming under small-arms fire in northeastern Baghdad.

-- Soldiers were attacked with rocket-propelled grenades in eastern Baghdad. Soldiers identified two separate RPG teams and retuned fire, killing five.

BAGHDAD - The Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, said it received five dead bodies riddled with shrapnel and bullets overnight. It said 22 other people had been wounded.

* MOSUL - The U.S. military said it killed one suspected al Qaeda militant and arrested five in Mosul in northern Iraq.