(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The staff sergeant, who has not been named or charged, left Afghanistan last night to what US officials describe as a pre-trial confinement facility.
The New York Times, citing an unidentified senior US official, said the soldier had been flown to Kuwait.
The commander of US and Afghan forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen, made the decision based on a legal recommendation, the official said.
The sergeant was allowed to leave after Afghan President Hamid Karzai accepted that the suspect could be tried in a US court, providing the process was transparent.
The official said the transfer did not preclude the possibility of trying the case in Afghanistan.
The US military has detention facilities in Kuwait that have been used for other troops.
Army PFC Bradley Manning was detained in Kuwait after he was taken into custody in Baghdad in 2010 for allegedly leaking government documents in the WikiLeaks case.
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