Following are security developments in Iraq at 6 a.m. EST on Sunday.* denotes new or updated items. * MOSUL – A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. patrol wounded six people in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

A mobile group of Mujahideen engaged in a firefight with a Russian army special forces’ unit in a forested area near the village of  Selmentauzen last Sunday, October 8, 2006.

Serbia begins final talks on Kosovo on Monday knowing it has failed to persuade a significant number of European Union member states to oppose independence for the breakaway province.

A whole series of clashes between Chechen Mujahideen and invaders with their puppets took place in the southern Vedeno district of Chechnya during the last few days according to reports from the Chechen Military Command. The enemy suffered losses in local firefights.

Afghan and NATO-led forces killed 65 Taliban rebels when they called in air strikes as the insurgents smuggling weapons across the border from Pakistan, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Sunday.

Three Islamic preachers, Sigauri, Dimiev and Masaev, were kidnapped by Russian troops on the night between September 28-29, 2006 and are now held in one of the secret prisons in Chechnya according to a report from a Chechen group.

Iran said on Sunday a Middle East conference organized by the United States would result in an erosion of Palestinian rights because Washington had shown in the past that it was not an objective mediator.

According to a report for the Kavkaz Center news agency from the Chechen Military Command, a mobile unit of Chechen Mujahideen attacked and destroyed a military convoy of Russians and puppets on a road between the district center of Achkhoi Martan and the Kotai Yurt village on Wednesday, October 17, …

14 Russians and puppets were killed and 27 were wounded in various districts of Chechnya in 72 hours on October 17-19, 2006, according to a report for the Kavkaz Center news agency from the Chechen Military Command.