
Two Guantánamo detainees from Yemen have been transferred from the detention center and relocated to Ghana, marking the beginning of an expected 17 imminent departures from the naval base. Now, just 105 detainees remain at Guantánamo Bay.
by Jordan Schachtel7 Jan 2016, 11:31 AM PST0

With the dawn of 2016, there is hope that the long presidency of George W. Bush will finally be over.
by Joel B. Pollak1 Jan 2016, 12:01 AM PST0

The Obama administration, continuing its goal of closing the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, is readying the “transfer” of 17 “lower-level detainees” from the country, officials told The New York Times.
by Jordan Schachtel18 Dec 2015, 8:05 AM PST0

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA— It’s the worst kept secret at Guantanamo Bay: The detainees, in all likelihood, much prefer the detention center here to the conditions faced at a federal facility.
by Jordan Schachtel14 Dec 2015, 5:21 PM PST0

The five Taliban commanders who were exchanged for Bowe Bergdahl – a U.S. soldier who deserted his post in Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban shortly after doing so – have resumed “threatening activities,” after being released to Qatar from Guantánamo Bay last year, according to a new House Armed Services Committee report.
by Jordan Schachtel10 Dec 2015, 9:47 AM PST0

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA— Ibrahim Al Qosi, a former Guantánamo detainee, has re-joined Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), recommitting to waging jihad against the West following his release from the detention facility.
by Jordan Schachtel10 Dec 2015, 6:14 AM PST0

U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTÁNAMO BAY, CUBA—Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow alleged al-Qaeda travelers—Walid Muhammad Salih, Mubarak Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin Al Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam Al Hawsawi—appeared in high spirits Tuesday.
by Jordan Schachtel8 Dec 2015, 7:02 PM PST0

Today, near the media operations center here at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pre-trial hearings will continue at the Guantanamo war court.
by Jordan Schachtel8 Dec 2015, 1:58 AM PST0

US NAVAL STATION GUANTÁNAMO BAY, CUBA—The primary debate during pre-trial proceedings here at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base on Tuesday will revolve around whether female guards are allowed to make contact with detainees.
by Jordan Schachtel7 Dec 2015, 6:16 PM PST0

Following the recent Paris attacks the Chairman of the Austrian Freedom Party has called for European Islamic extremists to be put into a Guantanamo-style island prison. Heinz-Christian Strache (pictured above) leads the anti-mass migration Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). He has called for a
by Sarkis Zeronian23 Nov 2015, 7:15 AM PST0

The Defense Department announced on Monday that five Yemeni nationals have been released from the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, including an Al Qaeda terrorist who reportedly had close ties with Osama bin Laden. They are in transit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Pentagon said.
by Jordan Schachtel16 Nov 2015, 10:14 AM PST0

The last British resident in Guantanamo Bay has now been released and is on his way back to the UK. Shaker Aamer, a Saudi national who has indefinite leave to stay in the UK thanks to his British wife, will
by Donna Rachel Edmunds30 Oct 2015, 3:29 AM PST0

Celebrities and Members of Parliament will join a hunger strike to show their solidarity with terror suspect Shaker Aamer, a Saudi Arabian citizen with legal resident status in the UK, who is due to be released from Guantanamo Bay within weeks. As
by Liam Deacon12 Oct 2015, 4:53 AM PST0

Jamal Udeen Al-Harith, a former Guantanamo inmate from Manchester, has allegedly being able to leave Britain and join Islamic State (IS) in Syria without security services stopping him. The former Guantanamo inmate is believed to have left for Syria over a year ago, reports the
by Sarkis Zeronian10 Oct 2015, 8:15 AM PST0

(Reuters) – Shaker Aamer, the last British resident to be held at Guantanamo Bay, is to be returned to the UK after 13 years at the U.S. detention camp, the Foreign Office said on Friday. Aamer, a Saudi national who
by Reuters25 Sep 2015, 8:36 AM PST0

Thursday afternoon in Columbia, South Carolina, former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) joined Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) for a “Presidential Town Hall” series that Scott is hosting with the Republican presidential candidates.
by Sarah Rumpf27 Aug 2015, 11:09 PM PST0

The Obama administration, while the Senate debates halting transfers out of the Guantanamo Bay detention center and keeping the prison operable indefinitely, is planning to free up to 10 detainees, possibly in June, Defense One has learned.
by Edwin Mora5 Jun 2015, 8:15 AM PST0

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five senior Taliban leaders released last year from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could move freely around the world next week as their one-year travel ban expires.
by Breitbart News27 May 2015, 5:52 PM PST0

The government of Uruguay has closed its doors to former Guantánamo detainees “definitively” and halted its program to accept refugees from the Syrian civil war for at least another year, according to Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa.
by Frances Martel24 Mar 2015, 9:18 AM PST0

A former hostage of the Islamic State who was imprisoned alongside executed Westerners Alan Henning and Peter Kassig, among others, reports that the terrorist group had built a rudimentary replica of America’s Guantánamo Bay facility in Syria with the intention of filling it with Western citizens and torturing them.
by Frances Martel16 Mar 2015, 8:19 AM PST0

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford, just back from visiting the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, joined Breitbart News Saturday to discuss the home of some of the worst Islamic jihadists.
by Robert Wilde14 Mar 2015, 4:05 PM PST0

A Saudi Arabian Guantanamo detainee with links to Britain is to be granted a £1 million payout by the British government as compensation for his time served at the detention centre, despite the American intelligence services insisting that he has links
by Donna Rachel Edmunds8 Feb 2015, 9:15 AM PST0

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, coming a step closer to reaching its goal of shutting down the Guantanamo Bay prison, has released five Yemenis from the detention center.
by Edwin Mora15 Jan 2015, 1:33 PM PST0

According to the Obama administration, the five Guantanamo terrorists they traded for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl are “no longer a threat to U.S. national security.” That’s what former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel concluded when he signed the document setting
by Tom Fitton6 Jan 2015, 10:42 AM PST0

The last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay may leave the detention centre in the new year as part of Barack Obama’s long-delayed plan to close the base. The US president is urging the release of almost half of Guantanamo
by Nick Hallett28 Dec 2014, 4:49 AM PST0