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NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Central Command in Kuwait on the latest developments in Iraq. He tells NPR's Melissa Block about the apparent U.S. strategy for taking control of Baghdad, with the Army in the west and the Marines in the east. In the south, British officials say they control the city of Basra, but there is widespread looting.

President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair conclude a summit in Northern Ireland. The two say the United Nations will have a "vital role" in postwar Iraq. Bush suggests the role primarily would be humanitarian. But Blair is under pressure from his public and European neighbors to permit a leading U.N. role in governing and rebuilding Iraq. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports.

Basra is under the control of British forces, British officials say. The southern Iraqi city had been the scene of a standoff between British troops and paramilitary and Fedayeen fighters since the first week of the war. Meanwhile, Basra residents flood the streets and loot the city. NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to the BBC's Kylie Morris.

Robert Siegel talks with Professor Edmund Ghareeb about the Shiite population of Iraq. Ghareeb is professor of Kurdish and Middle East studies at American University, and professor of Iraq Studies at Georgetown University. He is also co-author of War in the Gulf: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Craig Nelson, a reporter for Cox Newspapers, at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad where many reporters are staying. The hotel was attacked today by an American tank, killing two journalists. U.S. officials say journalists are not a target, and the tank was returning fire against a sniper. Nelson says the reporters staying at the hotel thought there would be danger in covering the war from errant bombs, but never thought their hotel would be deliberately targeted.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from the Pentagon with an overview of today's events in Iraq. U.S. military leaders are being questioned about the deaths of at least three journalists in Baghdad as a result of U.S. fire. Pentagon officials also described the attack on a building where Saddam Hussein and his sons might have been meeting but can't confirm whether they were killed or injured.

Commentator Margaret Erhart talks about the way schoolchildren on an Indian reservation near Tuba City, Ariz., reacted to the news that Pfc. Lori Piestewa was killed in the war in Iraq. Some of the second graders were related to Piestewa, and all of them knew she was from their hometown. Erhart is artist-in-residence at the school.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from downtown Baghdad that it was another day of battling in the streets of the Iraqi capital. The fighting and chaos of urban war has blown away the capital's spirit of defiance and is causing a mounting toll of Iraqi casualties.

Thousands of volunteers head to Iraq from other Arab states to fight the United States and Britain. Some say they are responding to calls for holy war. NPR's Kate Seeleye reports.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to John Keegan, defense editor for the Daily Telegraph, about how the collapse of Saddam's regime is due to the complete ineptitude of the Iraqi military, which made no use of the country's natural defenses. He says whatever advantages they had were thrown away.