Developments in Iraq on May 21

May 21 (Reuters) - The following are security and political developments in Iraq on Sunday as of 1030 GMT.

New Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose government was sworn in on Saturday, has vowed to rein in violence plaguing the country three years after Saddam Hussein was ousted.

BAGHDAD - Thirteen people were killed and 18 wounded when a bomb exploded inside a Baghdad restaurant popular with police, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three people were killed and 24 wounded when a roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded in the capital's eastern New Baghdad district, police said.

BAGHDAD - Five people were wounded when a roadside bomb went off in Baghdad's southwestern Bayaa district, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two people were killed and six wounded when a car bomb exploded in the northwestern Shula district of the capital, police said.

NAJAF - Police found the bodies of two beheaded women in the Shi'ite city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. Separately, Najaf hospital received the body of an engineer who had been shot dead, hospital sources said.

FALLUJA - Police found the body of a policeman on Saturday near Falluja, 50 km west of Baghdad, police said. He was kidnapped hours earlier. Police arrested five suspects in the killing in a raid on Sunday, police added.

POLITICAL PEVELOPMENTS

BAGHDAD - Iraq's new government held its first cabinet meeting on Sunday, a day after parliament approved a unity government that pledged to quell violence.