Iraq claims allies' bombs injured seven
Iraq claims British and US fighter jets have injured seven people in airstrikes on southern Iraq.
The Iraqi military says allied aircraft attacked civilian targets in six provinces.
A spokesman for the US Central Command said British and US planes conducted airstrikes on Sunday, not Monday, in response to Iraqi violations. They included the placing of surface-to-air missiles.
Lt Col Mark Samisch said: "We never strike any civilian targets. We go to painstaking lengths to only strike military targets".
The casualties reported are the second highest Iraq has claimed since President George W Bush was sworn in on January 20.
On his inauguration day, Iraq said six people were killed and three injured in airstrikes, but that its air defence units hit one of the aircraft. The US military denied any aircraft were hit.
Allied aircraft patrol the no-fly zones over southern and northern Iraq, which were established after the 1991 Gulf War to protect Shiite Muslim rebels from Iraqi government forces in the south and Kurds in the north.
Iraq does not recognise the no-fly zones and has been challenging allied aircraft since December 1998.
