Seventeen inmates wounded during a rebellion at Kabul’s main jail in Afghanistan were taken to hospital along with the bodies of four who were killed, after the prisoners agreed to halt two days of rioting.

Supplies of food, water and electricity were restored to rioting inmates at Kabul’s main prison tonight as the prisoners agreed to temporarily halt violence, officials said.

US Marines tracked down a band of insurgents in eastern Afghanistan and sparked a battle that left about 12 rebels and two American troops dead, the US military said today.

Afghanistan’s constitutional convention agreed on a historic new charter today, the convention’s chairman said.