KABUL (REUTERS/AFP) - The United States closed the Bagram detention facility on Dec 10 and no longer has custody of any detainees in Afghanistan, the US Defence Department said, closing a controversial chapter of Washington's long "war on terror".

Asking not to be named, an official confirmed to AFP that after a careful review by the Pentagon and the State Department, the last "third-country nationals" in US custody in Afghanistan had been transferred and the US military no longer operates any detention facilities there.