Key developments

• Barefoot and wearing civilian clothes, young Iraqi fighters marched away from battle, abandoning Mosul without firing a shot.

• Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit is the last major holdout of his regime, but no major troops units remain in the country, the Pentagon said.

• President Bush, declining to declare victory, said that he doesn't know whether Saddam Hussein is dead or alive but "I know he's no longer in power."

• Lawlessness and lingering pockets of resistance to American forces prolonged Baghdad's suffering. Hundreds of residents have been killed, the city is without power, and the supply of water is irregular.

• Gen. Tommy Franks instructs U.S. troops to ensure that public services and religious institutions continue to operate in the Iraqi capital.

• Kurdish fighters will leave oil-rich Kirkuk when enough American troops arrive to take over, said a senior Kurdish leader.