WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said Saturday that four Afghans from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre have been returned to their home country in what U.S. officials are citing as a sign of their confidence in new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Obama administration officials said they worked quickly to fulfil the request from Ghani, in office just three months, to return the four, who had been cleared for transfer as a kind of reconciliation and mark of improved U.S.-Afghan relations. READ MORE:Â U.S. sends 6 Guantanamo prisoners to Uruguay as refugees There is no requirement that the Afghan government further...
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