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Obama wanted to close Gitmo. Will Biden be able to finally do it?
President Biden’s Secretary of Defense, General LLoyd Austin has said he would follow through on President Obama’s efforts to close Guantanamo Bay, the prison for terrorism detainees. Today, its population is down to nearly 40, including six detainees cleared for…
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Why the cost of holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay keeps rising
The cost of running Guantanamo Bay’s prison and court system climbed by nearly $90 million from 2013 to 2018, even though the number of prisoners housed there has fallen. Amna Nawaz talks to The New York Times' Carol Rosenberg about…
Court calls U.S. ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ torture
Abu Zubaydah has been held without charge since September 2006 at the detention center on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Trial in 9/11 case at Guantanamo gets early 2021 start date
The U.S. has charged five men with planning and aiding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he had signed an executive order to keep the Guantanamo Bay prison open, but the move might bring about all that much change.
We asked experts what they learned -- and what they didn't -- from Trump's remarks on global issues during his first State of the Union.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order announcing his intent to keep the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay open, the White House announced Tuesday.
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.
A new exhibit in New York shares art from an unlikely place: Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. Current and former detainees have created work that represent their experiences as prisoners -- even episodes of torture -- often using whatever nontraditional materials…
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