The US military says American paratroopers have captured two former Iraqi army generals in Fallujah.
The military said they were suspected of financing and organising anti-coalition fighters west of Baghdad.
Rebels in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul attacked three American military convoys with rocket-propelled grenades and roadside bombs yesterday, killing three Iraqi civilians and wounding five Americans.
One soldier also died of wounds from a "non-hostile gunshot" at a checkpoint in Baghdad.
In one of the Mosul attacks, an Iraqi teenager was killed in a grenade blast near City Hall. Two Iraqis and one US soldier were wounded. Hospitals reported 10 Iraqis were wounded.
In another incident, two Iraqi civilians died in Mosul when a rocket-propelled round struck their car after apparently missing a military convoy. A US Army explosives disposal specialist was wounded.
Late yesterday, two American soldiers were injured in a rocket-propelled grenade attack. Another was wounded when an improvised explosive device exploded in his convoy.
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