In pictures: Taleban prison revolt

Some 500 non-Afghan Taleban prisoners staged an armed uprising inside the Qala-e-Jhangi fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif, where the Northern Alliance were holding them after they surrendered at Kunduz.

Helped by intensive US air attacks, the Northern Alliance regained control after a fierce three-day battle in which all the prisoners are thought to have been killed.

Bodies of the slain prisoners litter the fortress floor after the air assault

It is the gruesome task of the Red Cross to identify the remains

The prisoners - including Pakistanis, Chechens and Arabs - had killed guards and seized weapons

US special forces joined the assault, backed by air strikes

UK special forces also helped to coordinate the onslaught

A stray US bomb killed six alliance men and wounded five US soldiers

Northern Alliance fighters scaled the prison's mud walls

The battle raged for three days as prisoners fired mortars and grenades

All the prisoners are believed dead