Top Afghan officials say they want two American detainees released “as soon as possible,” but the Trump administration says a ...

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An Afghan woman who reluctantly agreed to marry her rapist in order to escape prison was freed late Tuesday. The woman, who is about 20 years old and goes by the name Gulnaz, was serving a 12-year ...

On Tuesday night, a convicted Afghan criminal left Austria – at his own request. The 30-year-old thus avoided serving time in prison and was taken ...

At least 29 people have been killed in a raid on an Afghan prison claimed by the Islamic State group, officials said Monday, as the country waited to see if a government ceasefire with the Taliban ...

(CNN) — Fifteen people were freed from a Taliban prison in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand on Sunday, the international coalition said in a statement. Afghan and coalition forces ...

In November 2002, a newly minted CIA case officer in charge of a secret prison just north of Kabul allegedly ordered guards to strip naked an uncooperative young Afghan detainee, chain him to the ...

Afghanistan's Taliban government freed a US citizen who had been held in an Afghan prison for nine months on Sunda , after reaching an agreement with US envoys on a prisoner exchange as part of an ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A former American soldier convicted in Afghanistan of running a private jail and torturing terror suspects has left the country after three ...