The Afghan Taliban announced that it had released a second batch of its prisoners from the government forces under the peace agreement concluded in Doha, while Kabul has so far released several hundreds of the movement's detainees who were being held in its prisons.

Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said that the movement released yesterday twenty government forces who were being held in Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan.

A few days ago, the movement released twenty other Afghan forces members it was holding in the southern Kandahar province.

In contrast, the Kabul government released, within a week, about three hundred prisoners of the Taliban movement, and said that they were demobilized according to specific criteria, including their health conditions and the crimes they committed, and made it clear that they obtained a pledge not to return to the fighting.

Batches of prisoners were released from both sides after the talks in this regard faltered, which necessitated Washington's intervention to implement the agreement.

The US special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, described the exchanges that have taken place so far as an important step towards peace.

It is noteworthy that the Taliban and the administration of President Donald Trump signed on February 29 in the Qatari capital, Doha, an agreement that paves the way according to a timetable for the gradual withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in exchange for guarantees from the movement.

The agreement provides for the release of about five thousand Taliban prisoners, compared to about a thousand prisoners from government forces.

On the other hand, the Al-Jazeera correspondent in Afghanistan reported, quoting a government official, that six American Bagram base workers were killed yesterday and two others were wounded in the attack north of Kabul, and no party has claimed responsibility for the attack.