In Afghanistan, officials raised the death toll in a 19-hour siege in Kabul to 14 on Wednesday. Afghan government has announced the violence had come to an end with the killing of all insurgents. The attacks started on Tuesday but dragged into a second day as armed men remained holed up in a high-rise construction site overlooking the US embassy and the headquarters of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings, an ISAF spokesman said , 11 people were killed and 19 wounded, which includes three children. Interior ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqui previously said that three police were also killed, taking the overall toll to 14.