An Iraqi intelligence officer was gunned down and a roadside bomb wounded three US soldiers on Saturday in separate attacks in the Iraqi capital, the American military and Iraqi officials said.
The interior ministry said an unidentified gunman equipped with a silencer killed an Iraqi military intelligence lieutenant as he left work in Baghdad's Muthana district.
The US military, meanwhile, said one of its vehicles came under attack in northwest Baghdad, wounding three soldiers.
The US convoy hit a roadside bomb in the northern neighbourhood of Kadhimiyah, according to an interior ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. A Humvee all-terrain vehicle was damaged.
While 115,000 US soldiers are still stationed in Iraq, the vast majority are deployed outside Iraqi urban centres under a security agreement between Washington and Baghdad signed last year.
As part of the accord, all US combat troops must leave Iraq by the end of August 2010, ahead of a complete withdrawal by the end of 2011.
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