WASHINGTON: The United States has pulled out of all prisons in Afghanistan and no longer holds any detainees, a US official said, as Washington attempts to extricate itself from the war-torn country.

The announcement came just a day after the release of a searing Senate report on the brutal US treatment of "war on terror" detainees triggered worldwide condemnation, including from Afghanistan’s new President Ashraf Ghani.

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