After 19 hours of continued fighting, a coordinated Taliban assault has ended on Wednesday, leaving left 14 dead and six foreign troops wounded.

After 19 hours of continued fighting, a coordinated Taliban assault has ended on Wednesday, leaving left 14 dead and six foreign troops wounded.

Armed with suicide vests and rocket-propelled grenades, militants targeted the US embassy and NATO headquarters. They took the Afghan capital a hostage as a wave of heavy explosions and gunfire was heard.

The latest standoff came to an end after helicopters from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were sent in to assist Afghan forces.
The fight ended when troops killed the two last militants who had held out overnight in a high-rise building under construction just a few hundred meters from the heavily guarded US embassy.

"The last attackers are dead and the fighting all over. There were six terrorists in the building and all are dead," interior ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqui told AFP news agency.

ISAF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings said 11 Afghan civilians including three children were killed in the fighting, which included three smaller, related suicide bombings in Kabul.

Siddique said that three police officers had also been killed. Some 28 people are believed to have been injured, most of them civilians.