The White House and the Pentagon voiced regrets today for newly published photographs that claim to show US troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan.

Another set of photographs apparently showing US troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan has been published.

The Pentagon today confirmed that an American soldier who went missing from his base in Afghanistan has been captured and identified him as a private from Idaho serving with an Alaska-based infantry regiment.

US troops are to serve up to 15 months in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of the usual 12-month tours under new rules.

An American television news correspondent who had reported on the deteriorating conditions in Iraq for three years was in critical but stable condition at a US military hospital in Germany today, a day after a car bomb killed two of her British colleagues.