Baghdad this evening claimed a civilian airport was struck by US planes with Washington saying they had attacked air defence positions.
The US military, citing repeated Iraqi attempts to shoot down US and British warplanes, said its jets attacked a radar site in northern Iraq and an air defence command facility in southern Iraq, in its sixth and seventh raids within a week.
But the official Iraqi News Agency said US and British jets fired two bombs at Mosul civilian airport, 450 km north of Baghdad.
"The aggression led to the destruction of windows in the passenger terminals and of the airport radar system," a Transport Ministry spokesman told the agency.
An Iraqi military spokesman said Allied jets bombed civilian targets in the south of the country, but reported no casualties.
Hundreds of such tit-for-tat exchanges have occurred since the 1991 Gulf War, but they have increased sharply as speculation grows that President George W. Bush will order the US military to invade Iraq and remove President Saddam Hussein.