Iran has launched airstrikes in eastern Iraq against Islamic State militants, the Pentagon has revealed.
But a spokesman said the US had not coordinated the attacks or military action with Tehran.
Rear Admiral John Kirby said the US continued to fly missions over Iraq and that it was up to the Iraqi government to avoid conflicts in its own airspace.
He said it was believed to be the first time Iran has launched manned aircraft from inside Iran to strike targets in Iraq.
Iranian military leaders have admitted that dozens of their forces have been in Iraq fighting alongside Kurdish troops battling extremists.
The US has not invited Iran to join the coalition fighting Islamic State and Iran has said it would not join in any case.
Rear Admiral Kirby said: "There's no reason to believe they are not true, those reports that Iranian aircraft struck targets against IS in eastern Iraq.
"It's Iraqi airspace and it's for Iraqis to deconflict.
"We are not coordinating with nor deconflicting with Iranian military."
But Foreign Affairs Editor Sam Kiley said there would certainly have been coordination.
He said: "There's no question about it.
"You can't fly combat operations in and around an airspace, partciaulraly not with coalition aircraft, you have got to what they call deconflict.
"That will all have technically been done through the Iraqis, but actually the Iraqis don't have that level of technology, not that level of know how.
"So a western power and an Arab power would probably be part of that deconfliction.
"At the very least that is a coordination that has to happen or they would fly into each other."
It came as NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels to discuss the threat posed by IS.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the battle against IS militants would last "as long as it takes to prevail".
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