Guerrillas wounded three American soldiers in northern Iraq, and a US raid on a remote village near the Iranian border failed to capture a top fugitive suspected of plotting attacks on coalition forces.
In Basra, British troops restored badly needed electricity to parts of the southern city and supervised distribution of gasoline after two days of protests over fuel and power shortages.
In central Baghdad, two grenades were thrown from a car at a US military checkpoint; soldiers returned fire, killing one Iraqi, witnesses said.
In al-Shumayt, north of Tikrit, guerrillas fired rocket-propelled grenades and detonated at least one homemade bomb, wounding three American soldiers, US military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Bill MacDonald said. All three were in stable condition, he said.
Monday's morning raid missed its main target, a former member of Saddam Hussein's regime who is on the US list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis, Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Young of the US Army said.
Seventy suspects were taken into custody, he said. Ain Lalin is 100km northeast of Baghdad.
Calm has returned to Basra after weekend riots during which Iraqis hurled rocks and bricks at British troops to protest fuel, electricity and water shortages that some said left parts of the city with less than three hours of electricity a day, little or no water and a fuel shortage.
British military spokesman Captain Hisham Halawi said coalition authorities began restoring electricity to the city late Sunday and were bringing 25 million liters of fuel to Basra.
"When the people get what they want they are peaceful, but if they don't, the British will see something else," warned Nors Mhibs, 60, who had been waiting for hours at a gas station in central Basra.
"I have six sons, I have six guns and I have an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade]. I can make trouble any time," he said.
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