Former Osama bin Laden bodyguard to be freed: United States

Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 13:31

A detainee at the US-run Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba is set to be released after a government review panel recommended the same.

Ex-Guantanamo detainee had role in Benghazi attack

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 11:44

US officials have implicated a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner in the 2012 attack on the US mission in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

US sends 3 Uighur Guantanamo prisoners to Slovakia

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 21:00

The government of Slovakia has taken three more prisoners from Guantanamo, helping the US get closer to its goal of shutting the prison on the base in Cuba.

Obama signs bipartisan budget deal, annual defense bill

Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 09:07

President Barack Obama on Thursday signed a compromise budget that reduces the risk of another government shutdown and a defense bill that cracks down on sexual assault in the military and smooths the path for transferring detainees from the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Nativity scenes at Guantanamo spark protest

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 08:19

Some troops at Guantanamo Bay want the US Navy to remove Nativity scenes and Christmas decorations from two base dining facilities, saying they improperly promote Christianity over other faiths.

Accused September 11 attacker expelled from Guantanamo courtroom

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 08:47

An accused conspirator in the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington was expelled from a courtroom at the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunal for being disruptive.

Genital searches of Guantanamo inmates necessary, court told

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 06:16

Searching genital areas of inmates at US prison at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to maintain security at a facility holding "enemy combatants," a government lawyer told an appeals hearing in Washington.

Two Guantanamo prisoners refuse release to Algeria

Last Updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 14:08

Two Algerian detainees at Guantanamo Bay are fighting efforts by US President Barack Obama`s administration to transfer them to their homeland, fearing abuse, a lawyer has said.

Torture complaints ignored at Guantanamo Bay, attorney says

Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 12:16

A man accused of aiding the September 11 attacks suffered a serious head injury while imprisoned by the CIA, his attorney told a war crimes tribunal on Wednesday, raising questions about whether the United States violated international law against torture.

Torture invoked in Guantanamo 9/11 hearing

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 08:48

Lawyers for the five men accused of the September 11, 2001 attacks invoked the UN Convention against Torture on Tuesday as a way to bring up their clients` alleged mistreatment in secret prisons.

US committed to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees: Hayden

Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 16:45

The United States has said that it was committed to transfer detainees from the Guantanamo Bay, as the Pentagon announced a special envoy for the closer of the infamous detention center.

Guards gave `50 Shades` to Gitmo prisoner: Lawyer

Last Updated: Thursday, August 22, 2013, 12:18

A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner says guards in the highest-security wing of the prison gave his client an apparently contraband copy of the erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey."