About 123 people, including eight women, were released from the central jail in eastern Nangarhar province and reunited with their families, an official said on . . .

A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing the green stone that is part of ...

There were no immediate plans to celebrate or mark his freedom, Takal added. Mohammed was detained on the battlefield in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province and later taken to the U.S. A federal jury ...

Efforts underway to promote dairy production and for this purpose the livestock farm of the Canal Department in eastern ...

Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The United States and Afghanistan have carried out a prisoner swap, the Taliban announced early Tuesday.

He was being held in California. Mohammed was detained on the battlefield in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. The Justice Department at the time referred to Mohammed as "a violent jihadist and ...

A prisoner swap between the U.S. and the Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in ...

Restrictive laws imposed by the Taliban last year mean women cannot train to become doctors or midwives in Afghanistan.

In return for Corbett and McKenty, the United States is releasing Khan Mohammed, an Afghan national who received two life sentences in 2008 after being captured in Nangarhar province. A federal ...