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September 6, 2021

Guantanamo Bay pretrial hearings for 9/11 suspects to begin this week

The pretrial hearings of suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and four others accused of conspiring in the attacks are set to resume this week at Guantanamo Bay following a year-and-a-half pause because of the coronavirus pandemic.

August 20, 2021

Retired Guantanamo Bay officer recalls Taliban threats, slams US 'laissez-faire attitude' toward war on terror

A former ranking officer deployed to the infamous Guantanamo Bay said he is "afraid" of how the Taliban’s motivations might have changed in the wake of America’s growing apathy, or “laissez-faire attitude,” toward the global war on terror.

August 18, 2021

Greg Gutfeld: Our leaders botched the Afghanistan withdrawal, they were too busy destroying the US

I'm not bashing the decision to leave. It’s how the atrocious exit negated so much sacrifice. This is truly a man-made disaster.

August 17, 2021

Reported mastermind behind Taliban takeover released from Guantanamo Bay by Obama in Bergdahl prisoner swap

A Taliban leader who reportedly helped orchestrate the group's takeover of Afghanistan was released by former President Barack Obama in exchange for former U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in 2014.

July 19, 2021

Guantánamo Bay detainee is transferred to Moroccan government

A Moroccan man, who has been held as a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay from 2002 and never charged with a crime, has been transferred over to Morocco with security assurances from Rabat, a report said.

July 15, 2021

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Guantanamo Bay Naval Station and our Constitution

Abdulsalam al-Hela is a 53-year-old Yemeni cleric who has been incarcerated by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba since 2004.

May 25, 2021

Lankford, other GOP senators urge Biden not to transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay

Republican Sen. James Lankford led his GOP colleagues in urging President Biden not to release or transfer current detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Fox News has learned.

April 26, 2021

Supreme Court to hear appeal of Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah over interrogation, detention

Oral arguments on the appeal are set to be heard by the high court this fall after the Ninth Circuit appeals court denied state secret protection to the architects of the CIA’s controversial torture program.

April 16, 2021

Senate Dems call on Biden to close Guantanamo to advance 'universal rights'

Sen. Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., wrote a letter along with 22 other Democrats to President Biden asking him to shut down the military prison in Guantanamo Bay. 

April 5, 2021

US shuts once-secret Guantanamo prison unit, moves prisoners

A once-secret unit within the Guantanamo Bay detention center that had fallen into disrepair has been closed and the prisoners moved to another facility on the American base in Cuba, the U.S. military said Sunday.