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An overnight attack on a U.S. convoy leaves another American soldier dead in Iraq, while a search for missing military guards ends with the discovery of two more bodies. Persistent Iraqi resistance is complicating efforts to restore order. Hear NPR's Scott Simon, NPR's Deborah Amos and State Department adviser Faisal Istrabadi.

In debate in the Senate and House, congressional Democrats criticize the Bush administration's use of intelligence to justify going to war with Iraq. The renewed criticism follows an admission by the White House that President Bush, in his State of the Union address, incorrectly claimed that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium for nuclear weapons. Hear NPR's David Welna.

Paul Bremer, the chief U.S. administrator in Iraq, says that U.S. and British troops will not stay in the country any longer than necessary, but that first Iraqis must write a new constitution. Meanwhile, Iraq's new governing council agrees to set up a war crimes tribunal to try former members of Saddam Hussein's regime. Hear NPR's Kate Seelye.

A U.S. soldier is killed when a bomb explodes near a convoy outside Baghdad. The Pentagon says continuing attacks in Iraq require that current troops remain in the country until at least September if U.S. or international replacement troops cannot be found. Along the Iraqi-Syrian border, anti-American sentiment grows. Hear NPR's Tom Gjelten and Dexter Filkins of The New York Times.

Two Arab TV stations broadcast audiotapes they say are by Saddam Hussein. The voice on the tapes calls for resistance to U.S.-led forces. U.S. officials say the perception that Saddam is alive and plotting a return to power may be fueling recent attacks on foreign troops. Hear NPR's Tom Gjelten and NPR's Guy Raz.

The Pentagon expands its approach to searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, with help from U.S. allies. A senior U.S. military commander in Iraq says the intelligence his forces received on Iraqi arms prior to the war was "wrong." Hear NPR's Tom Gjelten, NPR's Michele Norris and former CIA analyst Larry Johnson.

All Things Considered guest host John Ydstie talks to NPR's Anne Garrels about the situation inside Baghdad, where electricity and phone service are cut off. Garrels reports that her movements are very limited because of a curfew, but she can hear explosions, shelling and missiles in the western part of the city, closest to Baghdad Airport.

U.S. troops test materials believed to be chemical agents found inside 55-gallon drums near Basra. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says first reports of chemical weapons often are incorrect. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Washington Post reporter Rick Atkinson, traveling with the unit that found the material.

In Baghdad, overburdened hospitals struggle with the absence of electricity and the lack of drugs and sterilization equipment. In the southern Iraqi city of Basra, British forces begin efforts to restore running water to the city's more than one million residents, and to re-establish law and order on the streets. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels and NPR's Mike Shuster.

In Baghdad, security forces desert the streets, replaced by looters, and government officials have disappeared. Hundreds of Iraqi civilians take to the streets, cheering U.S. soldiers and ripping up posters of Saddam Hussein. And with the help of a U.S. Marine vehicle, a crowd of Iraqi citizens topples a giant statue of the Iraqi leader. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.