Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison
21 hours, 52 minutes ago
The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.
Medical alert in Guantanamo amid hunger strike
7 days ago
A U.S. military spokesman says medics at the Guantanamo Bay prison were called to a cell amid a long-running hunger strike at the U.S. base in Cuba.
Answers to key questions about Guantanamo detention center
13 days ago
The Supreme Court eventually rejected that argument, however, and allowed the detainees to file habeas corpus petitions challenging their imprisonment.Q: Who is being held at Guantanamo?
Obama should close Gitmo -- now
15 days ago
Last month, President Obama, in calling again for Guantanamo's closing, said it is an unsustainable situation, and he referred to prisoners being kept "in a no-man's land in perpetuity.
Yemen human rights minister in Washington to talk about Guantanamo detainees
20 days ago
But previous requests for such a visit have been denied, and Pentagon spokesman Todd Breasseale said Thursday he was unaware of any current request from Mashhour to visit Guantanamo.
Afghanistan's Karzai urges closure of Guantanamo
20 days ago
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pressed for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama mulls a renewed push before a reluctant U.S. Congress.
White House says moratorium on sending Guantanamo detainees to Yemen remains
21 days ago
The official said that a small number of staff members still work solely on Guantanamo issues, pulling experts as needed from other departments for "a broader enterprise."
Obama vows anew to close Guantanamo
22 days ago
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he'd redouble efforts on a failed first-term campaign promise to close the prison for terrorism suspects at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Torture expert testifies at Guantánamo war court
70 days ago
That detainee was Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was one of two Guantánamo detainees approved for special interrogation techniques by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Obama officials offer OAS panel no new date for closing Guantanamo
70 days ago
Huskey argued, however, that "acceptable" care requires "a trusting therapeutic relationship between an individual and his therapist, and there's no evidence of any such relationships at Guantanamo.
