An American defense contractor who was held hostage in Kuwait for 903 days has thanked President Donald Trump for his efforts in securing his release.
Federal agents wrangled a suspected illegal alien from Venezuela on February 20 inside a New Hampshire Courthouse.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Friday that will prohibit for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers from operating inside the state.
The family of freed American prisoner Tony Kim thanked President Trump for “engaging directly with North Korea.” The statement was released as Kim and two other former prisoners flew home with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters on a flight to North Korea Wednesday that the United States is “not going to relieve sanctions” without having fully eliminated the threat from Kim Jong-un’s rogue communist regime, despite the reported release of unjustly imprisoned Americans in the country.
“I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from North Korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting,” Trump announced on Twitter. “They seem to be in good health.”
President Trump announced during the State of the Union address that he had signed an executive order to keep the Guantánamo Bay detention facility open, reversing a key Obama administration decision to shut it down.
TEL AVIV – Turkish authorities reportedly tortured political detainees after a failed military coup led to thousands of arrests during the government-declared state of emergency, NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged.
The latest move in President Obama’s bid to close the Guantánamo Bay prison facility involves the transfer of two Libyan detainees to Senegal.
President Obama has unveiled his proposal to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, transferring the remaining terrorist detainees to mainland U.S. facilities at a cost of some $475 million.
Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah and Abd Al Aziz Abduh Abdallah Ali Al Suwaydi have been released from Guantánamo Bay detention camp, bringing the detainee total at the facility down to 91 individuals.
The Obama administration is defending the $1.7 billion payment to Iran as a “a very good deal for taxpayers,” after the United States made a deal with the rogue nation around the same time as the release of five detained Americans from Iranian custody.
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.
A federal judge is fed up with the Obama administration for its insistence upon adding additional hurdles to Guantánamo Bay detainee hearing procedures, while at the same time demanding the close of the base.
The Pentagon is scheduled to release its list of alternative facilities for holding former Guantánamo Bay prisoners after President Obama closes the facility, over the objections of Congress and a hefty majority of the American people.
A new report from Amnesty International charges the Assad regime with making over 65,000 Syrians ‘disappear’ during four years of civil war, an “organized attack against the civilian population” carried out not just for political gain, but for profit.
On February 4, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) lashed out against those pretending the closure of Guantanamo Bay will save America from terror attacks and said that as far as he’s concerned, terrorists “can rot in hell.”
