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NPR's Larry Abramson reports on the results of FBI interviews of Iraqis living in the United States. The FBI says the information developed has helped with war planning. Many Iraqi Americans have said they're happy to be interviewed, but some critics say the process creates resentment among immigrants.

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.

The northern city of Mosul, Iraq, falls peacefully after being abandoned by Iraqi forces early today. Kurdish militiamen and small numbers of U.S. troops entered Mosul following the Iraqi withdrawal. But the city, like others in the country, has been overtaken by a wave of looting and near-anarchy. NPR's Ivan Watson reports.

The Bush administration is warning Syria not to offer a haven to any fleeing members of the Iraqi regime. Speculation that Syria might be the next nation to attract U.S. military attention is debated on Capitol Hill. But the Pentagon and some analysts downplay the possibility. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

A day after Baghdad collapses, leaders in Europe and the Arab world say attention must shift to the future. France and Germany issue no official statements, but say humanitarian aid is now a priority. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak calls for Iraqi self-governance as quickly as possible. Hear NPR's Sylvia Poggioli and NPR's Michael Sullivan.

U.S. Marines will begin enforcing a dusk-to-dawn curfew in eastern Baghdad starting Friday. It's an attempt to control widespread looting in a city lacking all signs of Saddam Hussein's authoritarian regime. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.

The distribution of humanitarian aid is just now getting started in the port town of Umm Qasr, the first Iraqi town taken by U.S. and British forces. The U.S. hope for establishing a provisional civil administration in Iraq is starting there as well. NPR's Mike Shuster has the story.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports on the events of the day in the Iraqi capital. U.S. Marines swept into the heart of the city from the east, meeting little resistance as they linked up with Army units that had entered western Baghdad earlier in the week.

British commanders in southern Iraq give local Iraqi leaders 48 hours to hand over the gunmen responsible for two incidents Tuesday that left six British soldiers dead and eight others wounded. Local Iraqis say the attacks came in response to heavy-handed British rule. NPR's Deborah Amos reports.

Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld denies that the ongoing attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq represent a "quagmire" resembling the situation the United States faced in Vietnam.