BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- - Police and members of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia fought in another southern Iraq town on Saturday, leaving nine people dead.
A gun battle erupted in Suwayra, in Wasit province nearly 40 miles south of Baghdad.
This comes after an eruption of violence this week in Amara between police and the militia, known as the Mehdi Army.
Police said eight militia members and a civilian were killed in Suwayra.
An argument between a policeman and a Mehdi Army fighter sparked the incident.
The militia member was stopped by the policeman from driving along a road.
A quarrel ensued and then clashes started after the militia member called fighters.
A curfew was imposed in parts of the town and the situation is relatively calm.
Meanwhile, Amara is relatively calm now after troops stepped in and the government and al-Sadr appealed for calm.
Sources said the clashes in Amara were sparked when the chief of police intelligence in Maysan province, Ali Qasim al-Tamimi, was killed in a bombing.
Police in Amara said the al-Tamimi family accused the Mehdi militia of carrying out the killing, and in a retaliatory move, al-Tamimi family members kidnapped the militia commander's brother.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.
Deadly clashes erupt in second Iraq town
