The Americans opened fire, triggering a gunbattle in which at least one militant triggered his suicide vest.
They captured president Mamadou Tandja and his ministers in a four-hour gunbattle that left at least three people dead.
The gunbattle, which started at 3am local time and lasted for more than six hours, destroyed the compound, according to local officials.
About 3,000 rebels stormed Jumla, 375 miles northwest of the capital, Katmandu, and used villagers as human shields during a nightlong gunbattle in which at least 95 people died, the Defense Ministry said.
Ryan Crocker said the attack, which ended just at dawn after a 20-hour gunbattle, would not affect the transfer of security responsibilities from the U.S.-led military coalition to the Afghan security forces.
Three pro-Russian militants and at least one other person were killed in a gunbattle near the volatile eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk early on Sunday, a local leader told journalists.
He was thought to have died following a two-day gunbattle with federal police in December 2010 in his home state of Michoacan, but no body was found at the time.
The gunbattle came as images of the aftermath of Sunday's killings spread across the country, and the public reaction — which at first seemed surprisingly muted — began to build.
He reported watching Kosovo Liberation Army fighters engage in a gunbattle with Serbian troops and tagged along with a group of 13 Jewish settlers on the West Bank who, he said, shot at a Palestinian taxi.
