Security incidents in Iraq, Jan. 12

Jan 12 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents in Iraq reported on Thursday, Jan. 12, as of 1430 GMT.

U.S. and Iraqi forces are battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite and Kurdish-led government in Baghdad.

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BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers killed six insurgents and wounded one in clashes in Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. They said two of the dead were wearing suicide vests packed with explosives. They also found bomb-making equipment, assault rifles and ammunition in a nearby shack.

NEAR TIKRIT - Iraqi soldiers freed two kidnapped Iraqis on Wednesday near Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. The captives were found bound and gagged in the boot of a car during an Iraqi army patrol.

*BAGHDAD - Iraqi and U.S. soldiers detained a man after a firefight with insurgents and discovered a weapons cache that included 50 AK-47 rifles, 10 rocket launchers and 200 grenades, the U.S. military said in a statement.

*TIKRIT - U.S. forces discovered three weapons caches and detained 21 suspected insurgents during raids in Tal Afar, Tikrit and Mosul in northern Iraq on Wednesday, the U.S. military said in a statement.