Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, U.S. intelligence documents reveal 229 "rehabbed" former Gitmo detainees have returned to terrorism and killing Americans — and an alarming 66% of them have not ...

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Pentagon officials are finishing up a report regarding whichfacilities in the United States seem suitable to house Guantanamo Bay detainees. Now that the Pentagon has finished surveying the two ...

The United States military will likely show its benevolence toward the Guantanamo Bay detainees it's holding in perpetuity and will only force-feed the hunger strikers at night out of respect for ...

Sunday’s transfer of six detainees held at the U.S. military’s Guantanamo Bay detention facility marked the largest single transfer since 2009, the same year that President Barack Obama vowed to close ...

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President Obama is facing fresh complications in his push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp after the US intelligence community revealed in a new report that two more former prisoners have ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The remote Pacific island nation of Palau said Wednesday it has agreed to a U.S. request to temporarily resettle up to 17 Chinese Muslims now held at the Guantanamo Bay ...

In fact, obesity is increasingly a problem, says Gitmo’s chief physician, a reservist who volunteered for this six-month assignment and found the “professional and compassionate” medical care offered ...

The Obama administration is set to release another 17 detainees from Guantánamo Bay. The New York Times reports that the defense secretary has notified Congress of the iminent transfers: The Obama ...

President Obama has lifted the two-year ban on new military tribunals for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba he enacted after becoming president. MSNBC’s First Read blog notes the decision does not ...