Developments in Iraq, March 25

March 25 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents in Iraq as of 1300 GMT on Saturday.

U.S. and Iraqi forces have been battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led interim government. The bombing of a Shi'ite shrine on Feb. 22 has been followed by a surge in sectarian attacks.

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*YUSIFIYA - Police found two bodies, shot, blindfolded and with their hands bound in Yusifiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

*MAHMUDIYA - Four civilians were killed and 13 wounded when four mortar rounds landed on houses in al-Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

*SAMARRA - Three police commandos and a civilian were wounded when a car bomb exploded near their patrol in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police found ten bodies in different parts of Baghdad, police said. The corpses showed signs of torture and some had been garroted, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen ambushed a convoy of trucks heading to a U.S. base in Badush, west of +Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Six trucks were destroyed.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a traffic policeman in central Baghdad then placed a bomb inside his booth which killed four civilians in a minibus and wounded four, police said.