A US Air Force jet carrying one pilot crashed in Iraq today, the military said.

A suicide car bomber struck a US convoy waiting at a crossroads today in central Baghdad, killing seven people – including one American soldier – and wounding more than 90. More than a dozen others died in scattered attacks across the capital.

US jets tonight dropped laser-guided bombs on rebel positions in a village north-west of Baghdad, killing nine insurgents – five of them Syrians, the US military said.