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The Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay said Monday that they would no longer issue daily updates on detainee hunger strikes. This announcement effectively declared the end of the unprecedentedly broad, six-month long,...

Guantanamo Bay was leased to the US by Cuba on February 23, 1903, as part of the Cuban-American Treaty. Although the US maintained a military presence at Guantanamo Bay since the Spanish-American War, the perpetual lease allowed the US military...

The chief US military judge overseeing the trial of the accused 9/11 conspirators, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed , has ruled that lawyers cannot make public any material involved in the trial, including unclassified documents. The decision by Judge...

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Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri on Tuesday boycotted his pretrial hearing at the facility. Al-Nashiri is accused of bombing the USS Cole while it was in port in...

The US District Court for the District of Columbia held a hearing Friday regarding a challenge to new restrictions on lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees who have had their habeas corpus challenges denied or dismissed....

Wednesday marked the tenth annivesary of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay . On January 11, 2002, 20 detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, imprisoned as the first "enemy combatants" in the War on Terror declared by the...

Navy rear Adm. David Woods , commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, has proposed a new rule that would require military officials to review all legal correspondence between lawyers and the detainees accused of...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) Wednesday officially referred charges against a high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainee who allegedly planned the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that left 17 sailors dead...

An Australian judge on Wednesday froze the profits from a memoir written by former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . Hicks spent more than five years without trial in US custody after being captured...