US warplanes have launched air strikes in Falluja for the fourth straight day, attacking an area in the south-east of the city, killing at least one Iraqi, doctors and witnesses say.
At least five US soldiers have been killed and five wounded in clashes with Mahdi Army militia in Sadr City as a truce takes hold in Najaf and Kufa.
Members of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in Najaf say they have seized ammunition and weapons, including a missile launcher and machineguns, belonging to the US army.
Iraqi resistance fighters in the flashpoint town of Falluja have agreed to observe a ceasefire.
Fresh clashes between Polish and Bulgarian troops and the Shia militia in the holy city of