A peace deal to end clashes in Najaf appears to be holding.
Shi'ite rebels are leaving the Iraqi city's Imam Ali mosque and US forces are pulling back.
The leader of the Najaf revolt, Moqtada al-Sadr, is reported to have handed over the keys to the shrine.
Inside the mosque at least ten charred bodies have been found.
Iraqi police say they were civilians and Iraqi police killed in a court set up by al Sadr, but aides to the cleric say they were militiamen killed in the fighting.
The agreement was mediated by Iraq's top Shi'ite leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, after three weeks of fighting which killed thousands of people.
Under the deal, which has received a broad welcome in Iraq, Mr Sadr commits himself to creating an environment favourable to general elections and in return US forces will leave Najaf.
This will leave Iraqi police responsible for security. The Shi’ite militiamen will remain free but Najaf will be declared a weapons-free zone and the government will compensate victims of the fighting.
Elsewhere in Iraq, ten civilians and one US soldier were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a US military convoy in the northern city of Mosul.
