Insurgents detonated a pair of car bombs outside an Iraqi National Guard compound today, wounding American and Iraqi forces, a U.S. military official said.

Four people were killed in shelling at a checkpoint of the Fallujah Brigade, which had been patrolling the city since April, security and hospital officials said.

A US warplane fired missiles today to destroy an anti-aircraft gun mounted on the back of a truck in the restive city of Fallujah, the US military said.