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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says U.S.-led forces are now liberating Baghdad, and that "Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Ceausescu in the pantheon of failed brutal dictators." NPR's Scott Horsley has the latest from the Pentagon.

Spontaneous celebrations break out in Dearborn, Mich. -- home to a large Arab-American community and many Iraqi immigrants -- as news arrives that Baghdad is in U.S. hands. Celeste Headlee of member station WDET reports.

Kurdish fighters and U.S. Special Forces take control of a key mountaintop overlooking the Iraqi-held city of Mosul, a senior Kurdish official says. He says it is the most important gain in the region thus far, and has opened the way for troops to enter Mosul. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson.

NPR's Melissa Block speaks with NPR's John Burnett, traveling with the U.S. Marines. He reports they moved with relative ease throughout the eastern half of Baghdad.

U.S. special forces troops and Kurdish fighters enter Mosul after the Iraqi army abandons the northern city. Widespread looting and celebrations are now under way. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson.

Now that the Iraqi regime has been toppled, the U.S. faces the task of rebuilding the country, physically and politically. NPR's Melissa Block talks about the challenges of administering a postwar country with Ambassador James Dobbins, the Bush administration's special envoy to Afghanistan, and a consultant for the United States in Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti and Somalia.

Two new scientific papers are at odds over the question of whether it's currently possible to clone humans. One study suggests it's impossible with current methods. But earlier this week, a fertility doctor in Kentucky reported that he had successfully created a very early human embryo clone. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

Two Shia clerics, one returning from exile and the other a Saddam loyalist, are hacked to death in the holiest mosque in Najaf. Observers fear the deaths could be the first round of bloodletting among rival Shia groups jockeying for power in post-Saddam Iraq. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports.

NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports on the call for Jihad among international Muslim communities. Jihad by definition means "Holy War," but some experts say the idea of jihad is open for interpretation.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Daoud Kuttab, director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University and a columnist for the Jordan Times and the Jerusalem Post. Kuttab talks about how Al Jazeera and other Arab language satellite news services are covering Baghdad.