The prisoners at the largest U.S. detention facility in Afghanistan have refused to leave their cells for at least the past two weeks to protest their indefinite imprisonment, according to lawyers and ...

KABUL — President Hamid Karzai demanded Thursday that the U.S. detention center at Bagram Air Base be handed over to Afghan control within a month, along with all Afghan citizens held by the coalition ...

DUBAI/KABUL (Reuters) -Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Afghanistan's capital Kabul that killed six people a day earlier, saying it was in response to the ...

KABUL -- Two Afghan teenagers held in U.S. detention north of Kabul this year said they were beaten by American guards, photographed naked, deprived of sleep and held in solitary confinement in ...

The United States handed over its controversial Bagram prison to Afghanistan on Monday, as part of a deal to transfer all prisons to Afghan control by the end of 2014, Reuters reported. The transfer ...

In November, the New York Times and Washington Post reported the existence of a secret "black site" prison at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. The site, unconfirmed by the military and separate ...

* U.N. envoy says jails must meet international norms * Plans to visit Bagram prison By Jonathon Burch KABUL, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The U.N. special envoy expressed concern on Sunday over the conditions ...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — An al-Qaida commander who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan has posted a Web video urging Muslims to kill the Saudi king for leading an interfaith conference. Abu ...

The prison has been the focus of controversy in the past but never had the notoriety of the prisons at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Had al-Qaida ...