Prisoners wielding improvised weapons clashed with guards trying to stop a detainee from committing suicide at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the US military said today.

US National Guard troops from Louisiana and other Gulf states won’t be pulled out of Iraq ahead of schedule, despite the devastation from Hurricane Katrina, the US command said today.

US Navy SEALs are stepping up their investigation into recently-published photographs that show freshly-captured prisoners and grinning commandos sitting or lying on hooded and handcuffed detainees in Iraq.

The US military has launched a criminal investigation into photographs that appear to show US Navy SEAL commandos in Iraq sitting on hooded and handcuffed detainees, it emerged today.

US and British forces have released 887 Iraqi prisoners, but continue to hold 7,000 others as they sort through those captured in the month-long war in Iraq, the Pentagon said yesterday.

Pieces of the disassembled US spy plane that collided earlier this year with a Chinese fighter jet have arrived in Hawaii.