Of the 780 people ever detained at Guantánamo, 540 were released during the presidency of George W. Bush, who established the ...
But the costly operation could go on for years. By Carol Rosenberg Carol Rosenberg has been covering the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, since the first detainees were brought there on Jan. 11, 2002.
With 15 inmates remaining, advocates urge Biden to release more Gitmo detainees before he leaves office on January 20.
President Joe Biden is set to leave office Monday as the third president to try — and fail — to close the U.S. military ...
After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, is reaching a pivotal moment this month ...
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The time has come to shutter the prison at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where men are held far offshore the mainland U.S. in an extrajudicial hell.
The Iraqi prisoner had sued the Biden administration, saying he would be at risk for abuse at a prison in his homeland.
Nonetheless, lame-duck President Biden is quietly freeing more of these high-risk terrorist suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison, all to fulfill his old boss Barack Obama’s pledge to ...
If Republicans are serious about cutting unnecessary spending, they can start by closing the Guantanamo Bay prison — which now detains just 15 people.
After some initial momentum and a few successes, Biden leaves office like his predecessors, with the prison at Guantánamo Bay ...
The Pentagon said Monday it had repatriated to Tunisia one of the remaining detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison. Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi was sent there the day it opened ...
A detainee at a military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been repatriated to Tunisia, the Pentagon announced Monday. Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi, 59, was eligible to transfer following an ...