A US Marine, who resurfaced in Lebanon nearly three weeks after he vanished in a reported kidnapping in Iraq, is doing well and recovering at a US military hospital in Germany, a Marine spokesman said today.

American hostage Thomas Hamill, who was shot in the arm when he was abducted in Iraq, was treated for the wound and regularly received food during his three weeks in captivity.

American hostage Thomas Hamill, who escaped from his Iraqi captors yesterday, has left the country en route to Germany. From there, he will travel home to the US.

A plane carrying seven US prisoners of war who were rescued in Iraq have arrived at a military base in Germany, where they were to be examined at a military hospital.

Twelve wounded US troops were flown to Germany today for treatment at a military hospital.

US air strikes targeted outnumbered and cornered followers of Osama bin Laden today as a prison uprising in northern Afghanistan stretched into its third day.