Airat Vakhitov, a Tatar formerly imprisoned at the U.S. military facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for ties to the Taliban, has been arrested in Turkey in connection with last month’s siege of Istanbul Atatürk Airport.
A former Guantánamo detainee living in Uruguay has gone missing following an alleged trip to Brazil. Brazilian authorities say they have no record of Jihad Ahmed Diyab, and a national airline has called for employees to be on the alert for him.
As President Obama’s last year in office winds down and he comes to the realization that he won’t be able to close the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility like he promised in 2008, he’s been busy transferring inmates to other countries as a fallback plan. This month, Obama has sent Osama bin Laden’s alleged bodyguard to the country of Montenegro.
The government of Uruguay has lost track of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee from Syria who was transferred to its care in 2014 by the Obama administration, prompting a search by law enforcement, reports the Washington Post (WaPo).
During an interview Sunday, Col. Michael Bumgarner, formerly the commander of the guard force at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, stated that Gitmo is more important than ever in the wake of Sunday’s terrorist shooting in Orlando.
The Obama administration reports that at least 12 terrorists from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — all released under George W. Bush — have killed an estimated half-dozen Americans, the Washington Post (WaPo) has learned from current and former U.S. officials on condition of anonymity.
Two Republican senators filed legislation Thursday demanding the full declassification of the terrorist activities by detainees released from the detention center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Obama administration is secretly preparing to transfer up to 24 prisoners out of the U.S. military detention center Guantánamo Bay in Cuba by the end of the summer, the Guardian and Fox News report, citing unnamed sources.
The Pentagon has announced the transfer of nine Yemeni detainees out of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Saudi Arabia as President Barack Obama prepares to visit the Gulf kingdom and continues his efforts to shut down the U.S. military prison.
The U.S. has released nine more prisoners from its base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sent them to Saudi Arabia for resettlement, officials said Saturday.
“Democracy Now!” Host and Executive Producer Amy Goodman argued that the US should stop drone strikes and close Guantanamo to “challenge ISIS” on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time.” During a discussion of U2 lead singer Bono’s suggestion to use
The latest move in President Obama’s bid to close the Guantánamo Bay prison facility involves the transfer of two Libyan detainees to Senegal.
On Thursday, the Pentagon released the decision of the Guantánamo parole board that Yemeni national Muhammed al-Ansi, 40, would remain a “forever prisoner,” despite appeals from former president Jimmy Carter’s organization for his release.
Nearly a dozen detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are expected to be transferred in the coming weeks to at least two countries, Reuters learned from a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Detainees liberated from the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have killed Americans, a senior Pentagon official told lawmakers.
Cuban leader Raúl Castro denied the existence of political prisoners when questioned by a U.S. reporter during a joint news conference with President Barack Obama on Monday, hours after the mass arrests of peacefully protesting political dissidents.
NETWORK Executive Director Sister Simone Campbell argued that illegal immigrants who are “working hard” and have children who are US citizens “have a right to stay” after bemoaning the lack of “rule of law” in the treatment of some detainees
A growing number of former Guantánamo Bay detainees are returning to the battlefield to fight for jihad, even as President Obama pushes a plan to close the prison for good.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defense Secretary Ash Carter reiterated that Congress must change the law before the Obama administration transfers any prisoners from the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to a facility on American soil.
The Obama administration is considering all possible locations in the United States to house detainees from the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according to a Pentagon spokesperson.
Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) slammed President Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo Bay by saying,”he doesn’t say exactly how much money a new facility would cost taxpayers. He doesn’t even say where it would be” and “This whole debate is just
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has pushed forward legislation that requires President Obama release to the public information on the future whereabouts of enemy combatants currently held at the Guantánamo Bay detention center.
Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Ash Carter, while testifying before a House panel Thursday, indicated that some Guantánamo Bay prison detainees must be transferred to the United States because they are too dangerous to be sent to other countries.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorney General Loretta Lynch reiterated, while testifying before a House panel Wednesday, that it is against the law for President Obama to transfer detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison to U.S. soil.
On the same day that President Obama unveiled his plan to close the Guantánamo Bay prison facility, a former Guantánamo inmate who fought for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan has reportedly been captured by police in a raid against an ISIS terrorist cell in Spain.
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich expressed his opposition to closing Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday’s “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox News Channel. Kasich said, “Well, I haven’t seen the plan, but I don’t favor closing Gitmo. I don’t understand
President Obama asked Congress to join him in efforts to close the terrorist detainee prison at Guantanamo Bay, urging them to ignore the politics of the issue and work with his administration.
President Obama stated that “a lot of the American people” are worried about closing Guantanamo Bay and this is part of the reason some in Congress do, and later said that “the fact that I’m no longer running, Joe is
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.
The national security parole board for Guantánamo Bay has approved the transfer of 35-year-old Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmed, a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, to an as-yet-undetermined “Arab-speaking country” that can offer “appropriate security assurances.”
The Pentagon will submit a proposal for shutting down the U.S. military detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a spokesman reportedly said Monday.
During a radio interview on Sunday, Col. Michael Bumgarner, formerly the commander of the guard force at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, slammed President Obama for “throwing national security out the window” by continuing to release Gitmo detainees.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has slammed President Obama for not visiting the American service members stationed at Guantanamo Bay during his coming trip to Cuba.
President Obama will not visit the troops stationed at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base as part of his coming trip to Cuba.
A former senior British intelligence officer wants to give evidence that the country’s security services knew about what he claims was the ‘torture’ of inmates at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, a newspaper reported. The former officer is seeking
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.
Chicago Tribune Editorial Board member Clarence Page stated, “I never understood this logic of not putting terrorists in American prisons,” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Page said of closing Gitmo, “I think it’s the right thing to do, not only for international
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued President Obama’s claim that Guantanamo Bay is a recruiting tool was “a farce” designed to promote the objective of closing the prison on Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. Krauthammer stated, [relevant remarks begin
The Obama administration announced on Thursday that Iran had not violated the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. But it is wrong, as the text of the Convention makes clear.
The Defense Department announced Thursday that 10 Yemeni detainees have been set free from Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. All of them were sent to the Gulf state of Oman, the Pentagon said. Less than 100 detainees now remain at the military facility.