Three US soldiers were injured today when their Humvee vehicle hit a mine on the road near the Iraqi town of Fallujah.
The town, 36 miles west of Baghdad, is one of the most dangerous places for the occupation force. It sits in the so-called Sunni Triangle, where support for ousted dictator Saddam Hussein remains strong.
The US army also reported a soldier was seriously injured in a mortar attack yesterday near the town of Balad, 48 miles north of Baghdad.
The Arab League today granted the fledgling Iraqi Governing Council a seat on the 22 member pan-Arab body.
The decision was the league's first to officially recognise the council - appointed July on 13th after US forces deposed Saddam Hussein's regime - as an authority able to represent Iraq on the regional stage.
Elsewhere, firefighters today smothered a pipeline fire in the north of the Iraq that had been set by saboteurs a day earlier.
It was the fifth such attack on the oil-delivery system in less than a month.
AP