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  • Anti-ISIS Campaign
    Trump admin may send captured ISIS fighters to Iraq prison, Guantanamo

    The Trump administration is weighing a plan to send hundreds of captured ISIS fighters to an Iraqi prison after other countries refused to take them, and to send several of the highest-value fighters to the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, according to five U.S. officials and two European diplomats.

  • Guantanamo
    Guantanamo detainee transferred to Saudi custody, 1st for Trump administration

    Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi, who pleaded guilty to participating in a 2002 al-Qaeda attack on a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, was transferred from the U.S. detention facility in Cuba to his home country of Saudi Arabia to serve the remainder of his 13-year sentence.

  • Guantanamo
    Pentagon hopes Guantanamo inmate will ‘soon’ go to Saudi Arabia

    Darbi entered a plea deal in February 2014 that saw him admit to planning, aiding and supporting an attack on the MV Limburg, which killed a Bulgarian sailor, injured a dozen and caused a large oil spill in the Gulf of Aden.

  • Guantanamo Bay
    Will Trump release a Saudi prisoner from Guantanamo?

    On the campaign trail Donald Trump said he wanted to keep the detention center at Guantanamo Bay open and "load it up with some bad dudes." But President Trump may actually oversee a slight decrease in the population.

  • Guantanamo
    Mattis is 1st Pentagon chief to visit Guantanamo since 2002

    U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited the American Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to offer holiday greetings to troops Thursday. It was the first trip there by a Pentagon chief in almost 16 years.

  • Guantanamo Bay
    The Disarming Paintings Made by Guantánamo Detainees

    Two of his watercolors are included in “Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantánamo Bay,” a startling exhibit on display through January at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

  • Guantanamo
    FBI Agent: Saudi at Guantanamo Admitted Helping 9/11 Plot

    Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, now facing a war crimes tribunal, spoke to interrogators over four days in January 2004 as they showed him evidence of his involvement in the terrorist attack.

  • Extremism
    Saudi Arabia is about to release several ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees

    Saudi Arabia is quietly preparing to release a group of Yemenis once held in Guantánamo, the first non-Saudis to graduate from its 13-year-old deradicalization program. The imminent release of the nine Yemeni men, however, comes at a tense time for the kingdom and a potentially awkward moment for Washington.

  • Guantanamo
    In a highly unusual move, an American general is sentenced to confinement at Guantanamo Bay

    Brig. Gen. John G. Baker, the chief defense counsel for military commissions at Guantanamo, received 21 days of confinement in his trailer at Guantanamo after the judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, held Baker in contempt of court. Harvey Rishikof, a U.S. official who oversees the commissions, will decide in the next few days whether to affirm, defer, suspend or disapprove Spath’s sentence, a Pentagon spokesman said.

  • Guantanamo
    Attorney general says he favors bringing new detainees to Guantanamo

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday said he is in favor of bringing new enemy combatants to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reversing eight years of Obama administration policy aimed at shrinking the population at the military detention facility in the hopes of eventually closing it.