Treatment in secret prisons a decade ago was worse than the government told Congress or the public, said the report from the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Taliban suicide bombers blew up a car and stormed the traffic police headquarters in Kabul early today, setting off a gun battle which raged for six hours and left at least 10 people wounded, police said.

Seventeen Afghan men released from the US detention centre for terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay were turned over to local authorities in Kabul today and will be allowed to return home soon, officials said.