Filed under: Crime, Terror, Foreign Policy, National Security
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, National Security
With four months to meet its self-imposed deadline to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, the White House is dusting itself off from a series of missteps that have hampered the administration's progress on...Filed under: Foreign Policy
Bahtiyar Mahnut, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and one of the famously stranded Uighurs, has turned down the opportunity of release to the island nation of Palau. Mahnut told his attorneys that he would remain a prisoner to look after his older brother Arkin...Filed under: Afghanistan
Mohammed Jawad says he was 12 years old the last time he saw Afghanistan. On a cold day in December 2002, he was grabbed by police and threatened with the death of his family if he didn't put his thumbprint to a confession that he...
The Obama administration is looking to a mostly unused prison facility about 150 miles west of Chicago as a possible home for detainees from Guantanamo Bay, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The plan has the support of key Democrats in the Senate, and would bring as...Filed under: Foreign Policy
Six of the 97 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay and four Afghans will be repatriated to Yemen, possibly leading the way for dozens more to return to that country, the Washington Post reports. The transfer is the first major step in dealing with the largest group of detainees...Filed under: Bush Administration, Terror, Afghanistan
Sami al-Hajj was stopped by Pakastani forces on the border of Afghanistan in 2001. The New York Times reports that the U.S. military accused him of falsifying documents and delivering money to Chechen rebels,...Filed under: Terror, Obama Administration
The Obama administration has decided to hold 50 detainees without trial because it considers them too dangerous to release and too difficult to try, the New York Times reports. As the administration sorts through the remaining 200 prisoners and moves toward its goal of closing...Filed under: Terror, Afghanistan, Military
A military tribunal at Guantánamo can consider allegations of torture by a man accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan.
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Filed under: Terror, National Security, Afghanistan Accused Terrorist Omar Khadr Delays Hearing at Guantanamo
The White House said Friday that it would move the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) from New York City to an as-yet-undetermined alternative location. This announcement came after a bipartisan group of lawmakers called the...