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Tuesday marked the first day that Shiite Muslims journeyed to Karbala in a pilgrimage banned for decades during Saddam Hussein's rule. Experts assess the role that religion and politics will play in the new Iraq.

Coalition forces have captured four top Iraqi officials in the last three days and may be working with an unidentified former member of the regime to uncover hidden weapons of mass destruction.

More than 600 journalists traveled with U.S. forces in Iraq as part of the Pentagon's embedded journalist program. Two formerly embedded journalists discuss their experiences traveling with the U.S. military, and weigh in on the debate over whether embedding journalists…

Gwen Ifill speaks with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman about his recent trips to Egypt, Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Kuwait and southern Iraq.