FACTBOX-Security Developments In Iraq, Jan 18

Gunmen in a car killed two guards protecting a communication tower on Saturday in northeastern Mosul, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three policemen in the Mashtal district of east Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a lorry carrying pre-cast blast walls wounded two civilians in the Yarmouk district of west Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb near a restaurant wounded eight civilians in Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad.

MOSUL - Gunmen in a car killed two guards protecting a communications tower on Saturday in northeastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen in a car shot dead an off-duty policeman on Saturday in northern Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - The deputy head of the U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrols programme was wounded when a bomb exploded near his house on Saturday in the al-Furat district of southwestern Baghdad, police said. Five of his neighbours were wounded in the blast.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three policemen on Saturday when it targeted their patrol near central Baghdad's Al-Shaab stadium, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round wounded two Iraqi soldiers on Saturday in the Jamiaa district of western Baghdad, police said.