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NPR's Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about the latest news from the Pentagon.

The first supply planes have touched down in the newly renamed Baghdad Airport, now controlled by U.S. forces despite sporadic attacks from Iraqi forces. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt, with the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division.

NPR's Steve Inskeep in central Iraq reports on the entry of U.S. Marines into a market town south of Baghdad. The Marines' foray was part of efforts to consolidate U.S. control over areas bypassed by American forces on their push to Baghdad.

Karen Michel profiles guitarist Brad Shepik, who mixes American jazz with influences from Moroccan to Klezmer. Shepik has just released a new album — it's called Drip (Knitting Factory).

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.

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.

The U.S. military drops four bunker-buster bombs on a building in a residential Baghdad neighborhood where U.S. intelligence suggests Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his sons have taken refuge. U.S. officials say they are "moderately confident" that Saddam and one or both of his sons were in the building. Hear NPR's Tom Gjelten.

U.S. Marines continued an effort to establish control of southern Iraq. Troops swept toward al-Amarah, a southern Iraqi city that has yet to see U.S. or British troops. The Marines were expecting to fight one of the remaining divisions of Iraq's army. But as NPR's Steve Inskeep reports, that unit disappeared during the advance.

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.

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.