Surrendering Taliban militants stand with their weapons as they are presented to the media on November 4, 2010 in Herat, Afghanistan.

A members of the Taliban voluntarily handed over their weapons and joined the government in Herat November 4, 2010. Twenty members of the Taliban left their group and joined the Afghan government in the western Herat province. The former members of the Taliban said that they wanted to return to a normal life.

Surrendering Taliban militants stand with their weapons as they are presented to the media on November 4, 2010 in Herat, Afghanistan. Twenty Taliban fighters from Afghanistan's Herat province have surrendered to government troops in Herat, west of the capital city of Kabul. After an amnesty launched by President Hamid Karzai in November 2004, hundreds of anti-government Taliban militants have since surrendered to the