Reports noted that the US military has handed control of a controversial prison Bagram housing more than 3,000 Taliban fighters and terrorism suspects to the Afghan authorities. In a small ceremony, Afghan officials said inmates had been transferred to their authority. The move is part of a deal to transfer all Afghan prisons back to local control ahead of the withdrawal of NATO forces at the end of 2014.1
In another development, according to reports, a teenage suicide bomber has killed at least six people near headquarter of the NATO-led international coalition (ISAF) in Kabul. A number of children are among the dead. There were no reports of casualties among ISAF troops. 2