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News Wrap: Afghan government releases Taliban prisoners

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Duration: 5:35
Updated: 14 Feb 2014

In our news wrap Thursday, the Afghan government released 65 accused Taliban militants from a prison formerly run by the U.S. military, despite American objections. Also, the U.N. mediator met with envoys from the U.S. and Russia to pledge to help keep up talks between Syria's warring parties.

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Afghan Government Releases Detainees despite US Warnings

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Duration: 1:45
Updated: 13 Feb 2014

Afghan government releases 65 detainees who the U.S. has warned pose a serious security threat. Full Story: The Afghan government released 65 detainees on Thursday who the United States has warned pose a serious security threat, a move that further strains already tense U.S.-Afghan ties as the international mission in Afghanistan winds down. Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi said the prisoners had been released from a detention facility near the Afghan capital, Kabul, and would be sent back to their respective home areas throughout Afghanistan. "According to the information we received from our military police headquarters we confirmed that 65 prisoner from Bagram prison have been released this morning," Azimi said. The U.S. embassy in Kabul called it a "deeply regrettable" move that ran counter to a 2012 agreement on detainees. "The Afghan government bears responsibility for the results of its decision," the embassy said in a statement on its website. The U.S. military has said the men should be tried in Afghan courts. A U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States had provided Afghan officials with "hundreds of pages" of evidence or investigative leads against the prisoners. Some of the detainees, he said, had been linked by fingerprints or other evidence to the production or placement of improvised bombs. But Abdul Shakor Dadras, head of the Afghan board in-charged with reviewing the prisoners' cases, said that the men's detention had been unjustified from the beginning, despite the information put forward by the United States. "We could not find any evidence to prove that these 65 people are criminals according the Afghanistan law, there was no reason to keep them in the prison, though there was not evidence the period they have spent inside the prison and the overall process was unlawful and illegal," he said. "I believe that release of these 65 people will be for the benefit of the Afghan nation and it will be for the benefit of the American nation and American government," Dadras added. The prisoners were transferred to Afghan authority last year as part of the U.S. and NATO transition out of Afghanistan. The coalition of foreign forces has been battling the Taliban since the Islamist group was removed from power in 2001. The fate of another 23 prisoners who the United States contends should not be released is being examined by the Afghan government, the U.S. official said. The detainees have become one more issue fuelling tension in U.S.-Afghan ties ahead of a presidential election election in April and the planned pullout of most foreign troops by the end of the year. The Obama administration has been pressing Afghan President Hamid Karzai for months to sign a bilateral security agreement with Washington that would allow some U.S. troops to stay beyond the end of this year. For more news and videos visit ☛ http://ntd.tv Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision Add us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2C

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Afghan government releases Bagram inmates

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Duration: 1:57
Updated: 13 Feb 2014

Afghanistan has released 65 prisoners despite condemnation by the United States. The men are suspected of being responsible for the deaths of Afghan civilians, and coalition troops. But the Afghan authorities insist there's not enough evidence to hold the detainees any longer. Al Jazeera's Jane Ferguson reports.

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Afghan government sets dangerous detainees free

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Duration: 0:24
Updated: 13 Feb 2014

Afghanistan released 65 prisoners Thursday morning, despite strong objections from the United States. Charlie Rose reports.

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Afghanistan in 1979 KHALQ GOVERNMENT

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Duration: 10:02
Updated: 16 Aug 2013

Afghanistan in 1979 KHALQ GOVERNMENT attention: I m not Khalqi or Parchami just uploaded this video to show Afghanistan and its people at that time. http://w...

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Afghan government responds to torture charges

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Duration: 2:10
Updated: 15 Aug 2013

The government of Hamid Karzai, Afghan president, has asked a commission to investigate recent UN allegations that the detention centres of the nation's spy ...

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"The Afghan Government is not worth fighting for"

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Duration: 47:52
Updated: 04 Aug 2013

The Doha Debates takes on the Afghan war.

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Afghan government to shun US talks with Taliban

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Duration: 4:15
Updated: 26 Jun 2013

News: Afghan government to shun US talks with Taliban AFP Reuters ‎- 1 hour ago ... his government would not join U.S. peace talks with the Taliban until ......

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Afghan government controls situation in Kandahar

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Duration: 1:58
Updated: 13 May 2011

Afghan troops have again clashed with the Taliban in the southern city of Kandahar, but the provincial governor says the situation now is under control. Gun ...

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Afghan government 'willing to join peace talks'

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Duration: 2:56
Updated: 15 Aug 2013

The Afghan government now says it's willing to join peace talks with the Taliban in Doha provided the US follows through with promises they made. It pulled o...

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Afghan Government Condemns Suicide Bombing That Killed Six

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Duration: 1:43
Updated: 16 May 2013

Afghanistan's interior minister visits the site of a suicide bombing that killed six civilians, and condemns the attack. Full Story: The Afghan government on Thursday (May 16) condemned the suicide bombing that killed six civilians in Kabul and wounded 30 others. The suicide bomber targeted two vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital, officials said. It was not clear if any members of the foreign force were killed or wounded. The Hezb-e-Islami insurgent group, allied with the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack. A spokesman for the militants told Reuters that U.S. military advises were the targets. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it was aware of an explosion and was looking into reports of ISAF casualties. The group killed seven South African and Russian pilots in a bomb attack in Kabul last year. Hezb-e-Islami, which means Islamic Party, is a radical militant group which shares some of the anti-foreigner, anti-government aims of the Taliban. But the political wing of the group, founded by warlord and former anti-Soviet fighter Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has been in nascent talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a peace deal to end the 12-year war. The National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan's intelligence agency, says it thwarts a large number of attacks on the capital on a weekly basis. The last suicide bomb attack in Kabul was in March, when a man blew himself up at a Defence Ministry gate, killing nine Afghans, during a visit by U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel. For more news and videos visit ☛ http://ntdtv.org Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision Add us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2C

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Powerful Truck Bomb attack against Afghan Government Building with detailed aftermath

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Duration: 3:44
Updated: 30 May 2013

I own no rights to this video, thanks to: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=172_1369821948#fDAmBtSDXHTb7J3F.99 Afghanistan Suicide Suicide Bomber Jihad Afghan L...

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Afghan government releases Bagram inmatesAfghanistan to release scores of Taliban prisoners650 inmat

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Duration: 1:57
Updated: 13 Feb 2014

Afghanistan has released 65 prisoners despite condemnation by the United States. The men are suspected of being responsible for the deaths of Afghan civilians, and coalition troops. But the Afghan authorities insist theres not enough evidence to hold the detainees any longer. Al Jazeeras Jane Ferguson reports.Afghanistan to release scores of Taliban prisoners For more Latest and Breaking News Headlines SUBSCRIBE to https://www.youtube.com/user/24X7Brea... Afghanistan will release scores of prisoners considered by the US to be a security threat, President Hamid Karzais office has said. A statement said there was not enough evidence against 72 out of 88 prisoners previously held by US forces. Washington expressed concern over the planned releases, saying it regarded the 72 as dangerous criminals. The two countries have been at loggerheads over Mr Karzais refusal to sign a security deal with Washington. Irreparable damage Hundreds of prisoners at Bagram jail have been freed since the Afghan government took over the running of the prison in March 2013. The government now says there is no evidence against 45 out of 88 further prisoners, while the evidence against 27 more is not enough to put them on trial. We cannot allow innocent Afghan citizens to be kept in detention for months and years without a trial for no reason at all, Mr Karzais spokesman, Aimal Faizi, told the Reuters news agency. We know that unfortunately this has been happening at Bagram, but it is illegal and a violation of Afghan sovereignty. US state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said there was strong evidence linking the 72 to terror-related crimes. We have expressed our concerns over the possible release of these detainees without their cases being referred to the Afghan criminal justice system, she said. These insurgents could pose threats to the safety and security of the Afghan people and the state. US senators visiting Kabul last week said that any releases would do irreparable damage to the relationship between Washington and Kabul and jeopardise US plans to keep a troop presence in Afghanistan after the Nato withdrawal later this year. A statement released by the US last week said it would constitute a breach of a memorandum of understanding agreed between the two sides at the time of the Bagram jail handover. According to the UN Security Councils mandate, the US-led international military force in Afghanistan is scheduled to hand over all security duties to Afghan forces before its full withdrawal by the end of 2014. But if a Security and Defence Co-operation Agreement is signed between the two countries, about 10,000 US troops could stay in Afghanistan for another 10 years. The BBCs Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says that there have been internal battles within the Afghan government over the issue of prisoner releases. He says that President Karzais chief of staff Karim Khuram is widely perceived as being anti-American and it is an ally of his - the prison warden at Bagram jail - who is thought to be behind the decision to release the prisoners. TAGS abc breaking news, bbc, bbc football, bbc iplayer, bbc news, bbc news america, bbc persian, bbc sport, bbc weather, bbc world news, breaking celebrity news, breaking election news, breaking late news, breaking local news, breaking music news, breaking news, breaking news alerts, breaking news canada, breaking news headlines, breaking news in atlanta, breaking news in nigeria, breaking news india, breaking news pensacola florida, breaking news plane crash, breaking news story, breaking sports news, business expensive news home media world, christian world news, cnn, cnn breaking news, cnn money, cnn news, cnn news breaking news, cnn news world, detroit breaking news, global news, headline, headline news, health care technology news, hot latest global news, internet technology news, las vegas breaking news, latest breaking news, latest celebrity news, latest information technology news, latest music news, latest news, latest news headlines, latest news update, latest sports news, live breaking news, local breaking news, local news today, msn breaking news, nbc breaking news, nbc world news, news of the world, news report us world, news today news, news updated daily, solar technology news, sports news today, technology news, the latest news, today news, us news and world, us news and world report, us news and world report magazine, us news and world report web site, us news world report, world news, world news daily, world news headlinesHundreds of inmates have been released from the Bagram Air Base prison in Afghanistan after they were found innocent by the Prisoners Review Commission. A member of the Commission said the detainees had been imprisoned by the US-led foreign forces with no sufficient evidence or witnesses. Abdul Shakoor Dadras said from 760 cases reviewed, 650 prisoners were found innocent. The U-S-run military prison was handed over to the Afghan g

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Daily English News 'Peace between Taliban, Afghan government US only interest'

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Duration: 5:10
Updated: 27 Aug 2013

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Contractor: Afghan Government in Disarray

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Duration: 8:14
Updated: 11 Aug 2013

There are more contractors in Afghanistan than there are troops, and yet their role there is often underestimated and underreported. Contractors are often in...

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Afghan Government Provides Wheat To Farmers

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Duration: 1:16
Updated: 16 Aug 2010

The Afghan National Army distributes hundreds of thousands of pounds of wheat to villagers in Zabul Province. The Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanist...

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Afghan government suspends security talks with US

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Duration: 4:25
Updated: 06 Aug 2013

The Afghan government has announced that it is suspending security negotiations with Washington because of the United States' "inconsistent statement and act...

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Afghan government fails to help bombed village - 2 Feb 09

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Duration: 2:30
Updated: 30 May 2013

In August, US airstrikes in Herat province drew harsh criticism from the Afghan government and the UN. They said 90 civilians had been killed. The US said 30...

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America Breaking News: Afghan Government Signals May Join Taliban Talks

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Duration: 1:14
Updated: 29 Jul 2013

Afghan government signals may join Taliban talks Could negotiations with the Taliban still be possible? An Afghan spokesman says President Hamid Karzai is wi...

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Fox News Covers SIGAR Report on Afghan Government's Ability to Sustain ANSF Facilities

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Duration: 0:26
Updated: 01 Nov 2012

Fox News Channel Special Report with Bret Baier Covers SIGAR Audit Report Finding Afghan Government Will Likely be Incapable of Fully Sustaining ANSF Facilit...

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Afghan Government Releases Detainees

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Duration: 2:25
Updated: 13 Feb 2014

حکومت افغانستان امروز پنجشنبه ٦٥ زندانی را با وجود انتقادات شدید ایالات متحده امریکا مبنی بر تهدیدات امنیتی، از زندان بگرام ازاد ساخته است. این امر روابط واشنگتن و کابل را بیشتر تیره کرده است.

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Taliban to Start Talks With U.S. and Afghan Government

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Duration: 3:09
Updated: 18 Jun 2013

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Afghan government accounting/audit and transparency and the reaction

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Duration: 6:11
Updated: 19 Aug 2013

افغانستان د ازاد بازار قوانین او لایحي تصویب کړي او په همدې وجه د تیرو څو کلونو په ترڅ کې حتی پخپله جمهور رئیس کرزي په مختلفو هیوادونو کې بهرني پانگه وال دیت...

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