The U.S. approved on Monday the release of the oldest prisoner at the U.S. military’s Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba, a 76-year-old man from Pakistan held for 16 years at the facility for alleged ties to the al-Qaeda terror group.
The vast majority of the Gitmo prisoners have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the U.S. military announced.
Marvel’s “Avengers” star Benedict Cumberbatch says he wants President Joe Biden to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center after working on the film The Mauritanian.
Former Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel slammed the Biden Pentagon for blaming the Trump administration for a plan to vaccinate Guantanamo Bay detainees that garnered huge backlash from the public and Republican lawmakers after it was disclosed last week.
The Pentagon on Saturday announced it would pause a plan to vaccinate Guantanamo Bay detainees, after backlash from Americans unable to get the coronavirus vaccine.
Heroes of 9/11 are expressing outrage over reports of the Biden administration moving to offer coronavirus vaccines to suspected terrorists residing in the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, calling the move “disgusting” and “fucking nuts.”
The Biden administration plans to offer coronavirus vaccines to detainees held at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, the New York Times reported on Thursday evening.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic has once again delayed the long-awaited death penalty trial of the self-professed 9/11 mastermind and his four co-conspirators held at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the judge handling the cases revealed recently.
During Thursday’s “PBS NewsHour” Politico Democratic debate, 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility if she is elected president. Moderator Yamiche Alcindor asked, “Would you pledge to finally close the detention facility,
The death penalty trial of the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind and his four co-conspirators held at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is still pending nearly two decades after the jihadis executed the attack, the deadliest on American soil.
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) on Wednesday said during the first 2020 Democrat presidential debate in Miami, Florida that terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay receive better health care than illegal alien children housed in U.S. border facilities.
The Supreme Court added five new cases to its term for fall 2019, including racial discrimination, the environment, the death penalty, and international child abduction. On the same day, the Court refused to dive into declaring new legal rights for Islamic terrorists held by the U.S. military.
There are “thousands” of detainees in Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) detention camps that need to be dealt with, according to Pompeo.
Some women who joined the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) as fighters, recruiters, and brides are trying to recreate the fallen caliphate from inside prison camps in northern Syria, the Associated Press (AP) reported this week.
The five high-risk Taliban commanders released from the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by the previous administration in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl who was captured by the terrorist group after deserting his post in Afghanistan are now reportedly negotiating peace in the war-ravaged country with their former captors.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering transferring some of the hundreds of suspected Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists held in Syria to the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as an option of “last resort,” the Department of State (DOS) confirmed Thursday.
Four U.S. Republican senators sent a letter to President Donald Trump this week urging him to transfer more than 700 “battled-hardened” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis captured by the American-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to the American military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo).
The five high-level Taliban members transferred from the American prison in Guantánamo to Qatar in exchange for U.S. Army deserter, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined the jihadi organization’s political office in Doha, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid revealed Tuesday.
Two of the 40 prisoners still held at the U.S. military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, cannot leave after they refused to cooperate with authorities arranging their release when former President Barack Obama was in office, the Miami Herald learned from the facility’s commander this week.
An al-Qaeda-linked prisoner held at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, proclaimed his innocence in an op-ed published by the Houston Chronicle Sunday and urged the new prime minister of Pakistan to “press” the United States for his release.
The mastermind and architect behind the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks on the United States, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was able to obtain a visa to enter the U.S. just six weeks before the attacks.
Four former Guantanamo Bay prisoners suspected of terror have been given asylum and effectively granted British citizenship, despite having no links to the UK.
Trump administration officials and European diplomats told NBC News on Thursday that hundreds of captured Islamic State fighters may be sent to Iraq for incarceration, with a few of the highest-value prisoners detained in the American facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Colonel Richard Kemp, former chairman of the British government intelligence coordination body Cobra has written in British newspaper the Daily Telegraph that leaving the European Union will present a golden opportunity to strengthen counter-terrorism laws, and even to bring back the death penalty.
U.S. Donald Trump’s administration waived a recent Pentagon policy to allow an admitted al-Qaeda terrorist to take his artwork with him when released to Saudi Arabia from the American military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba early this month.
The Pentagon honored an Obama administration-era agreement to repatriate an al-Qaeda-linked jihadi held at the Guantánamo Bay U.S. prison to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, marking the first such transfer under U.S. President Donald Trump who pledged to “load” the detention center “up with some bad dudes.”
An estimated 150 former Guantánamo Bay prisoners liberated as part of former President Barack Obama’s efforts to shut down the U.S. military detention center “risk being killed — or could end up becoming threats themselves,” the New York Times (NYT) acknowledged this week.
An attorney working for a 9/11-linked jihadi held at the Guantánamo Bay prison is seeking to pressure the Pentagon into lifting restrictions that prevent his client from disseminating his art, arguing that the prisoner gets therapeutic benefit from creating and sharing his work.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly pushing ahead with the first repatriation of an accused Saudi jihadist held at the American military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
A Saudi native jihadist held at the U.S. Guantánamo military prison in Cuba will keep enjoying the perks granted to him for becoming a witness for the prosecution now that authorities can no longer repatriate him until the U.S. and the Sunni kingdom finalize the agreement for his release.
