An Afghan girl watches as French soldiers along with unseen members of the Afghan National Police (ANP) search house-to-house in Jalokhel in Kapisa province just after a TIC (Troups in Contact) with insurgents on January 5, 2010. Photograph by: AFP/Getty Images, AFP/Getty ImagesAfghanistan to Take Over Bagram Prison -- Voice of America
Afghan officials are set to take over responsibility for the U.S.-run detention facility at Bagram Air Base.
Afghanistan's Defense Ministry announced that a transfer agreement was signed Saturday.
The site, near Kabul, has been used to hold detainees captured during the U.S. and NATO-led offensive against the Taliban beginning in 2001.
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