An Iraqi-led brigade peacefully took up positions in the Sunni city of Fallujah today, while U.S. forces faced continued resistance in the Shiite city of Najaf, where radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr remains holed up. Terence Smith discusses today's developments with…

U.S. Marines will begin withdrawing from Fallujah under a tentative agreement reached late Wednesday to end the month-long standoff between coalition forces and insurgents. Margaret Warner discusses the deal with military experts.

Lakhdar Brahimi, U.N. envoy to Iraq, proposed a plan to dissolve the Iraqi Governing Council next month and install an interim president and two vice presidents, all of whom would agree not to run in the June 2005 national elections.

U.S. Marines assaulted insurgents in Fallujah with helicopter gunships and bombing strikes for a third day Wednesday. Rajiv Chandrasekaran of The Washington Post, who has been embedded with U.S. Marines in the city, provides an update.