Tag: Guantanamo Bay

President Obama on Thursday will again call for the closure of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, even as his Pentagon asks Congress for $450 million more to keep the facility open. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)

National Security

Pentagon says Guantanamo detainee known as ’20th Hijacker’ will be sent back to Saudi Arabia

Abigail Adcox · March 8, 2022 4:53 am

Retiring Breyer denies Guantanamo detainee’s efforts to learn about CIA black sites

Jerry Dunleavy · March 3, 2022 5:11 pm

FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. President Barack Obama is pushing to overcome obstacles to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, an elusive goal which has frustrated him since he took office. That is setting the White House on a collision course with Congress in its bid to loosen restrictions for moving out detainees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Biden administration approves five more Gitmo detainees for transfer

Mike Brest · January 12, 2022 4:32 pm

US naval ship sidelined amid multiple coronavirus cases

Mike Brest · December 27, 2021 3:30 pm

Biden administration MIA as Senate Democrats push to close Guantanamo Bay

Jerry Dunleavy · December 7, 2021 4:58 pm

Beltway Confidential

Biden administration won’t call the border crisis a ‘crisis’ but will send migrants to Guantanamo

Kaylee McGhee White · September 23, 2021 6:20 pm

White House disputes reports of plans to send Haitian migrants to Guantanamo

Naomi Lim · September 23, 2021 6:07 pm

An American flag waves in the breeze behind razor-wire and fences within the compound of Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

DHS seeks private contractor to run Guantanamo Bay migrant facility amid Del Rio surge

Kaelan Deese · September 23, 2021 3:09 am

New judge says 9/11 trial at Gitmo is ‘at least one year away’

Jerry Dunleavy · September 14, 2021 6:44 pm

On 20th anniversary at Gitmo, yet-to-happen 9/11 trial remains at the forefront

Jerry Dunleavy · September 11, 2021 8:34 pm

Osama bin Laden, left, and Ayman al Zawahiri are seen in October 2001.

Ayman al Zawahiri: Taliban’s return fuels questions about al Qaeda leader’s health and whereabouts

Jerry Dunleavy · September 11, 2021 1:40 pm

In this photo, reviewed by a U.S. Dept of Defense official, a turret-gunner rides in a Humvee on patrol which passes by the compound at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006.

Sister of NYC firefighter who died on 9/11 calls for ‘resolution’ in Gitmo trial 20 years later

Jerry Dunleavy · September 11, 2021 4:17 am