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After being captured by Taliban insurgents, more than a dozen Afghan hostages were liberated during a joint mission between U.S. and local forces.
The Taliban have freed two Americans in detention in Afghanistan, the State Department says, on the same day that the militant faced condemnation for banning women at universities. "This, we understand, to have been a goodwill gesture on the part of the Taliban. This was not part of any swap of prisoners or detainees. There was no money that exchanged hands," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
People gather and wait outside Insein prison in Yangon with hopes of seeing their loved ones Sunday after Myanmar's junta said it would release over 1,600 prisoners from jails across the country to mark the Buddhist new year. IMAGES
At least 20 people, including civilians and prisoners, have been killed in fighting between security forces and gunmen who raided an Afghan jail in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group, officials said Monday. Outside the prison compound, heavily armed Afghan security forces stand by in armoured vehicles mounted with machine guns. IMAGES.
Dozens of Taliban prisoners are freed during a historic ceasefire in Afghanistan -- only the second in nearly 19 years of war -- as part of plans by authorities to release about 900 Taliban prisoners across the country. Of this, approximately 600 of them were set to be freed from the notorious Bagram jail near Kabul. IMAGES
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