Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp News

An artist rendering by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin shows Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri during his military commissions arraignment at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba on Nov. 9, 2011.

PEOPLE who eat rare wild animals like giant pandas and golden monkeys will now face jail time, under new laws in China.

Some of them have been locked up for a dozen years. Some are suspected fighters from Yemen, Russia or Pakistan, arrested by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere.

That the system isn't working has long been obvious. Now the tragedy is turning into farce.

Geometrically speaking, it just can't happen, architects sniff. Yet people who work for presidents or cover them for a living know that it does.

While President Obama told the country to "look forward, not backward" when it came to Bush's torture program, the United Nations has taken a different route.

The defence team for five people facing trial before a war crimes tribunal stemming from the Sept.

The defense team for Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri argued during pretrial motions at the Cuban prison that the Guantanamo detainee's time spent in secret CIA prisons - during which he was waterboarded and threatened with a gun and a power drill - has "tainted" his testimony, and thus the case against him.

Two high-profile attorneys will clash on Wednesday when a military hearing begins to determine whether Sgt.

A U.S. research institute says commercial satellite imagery shows increased activity at North Korea's nuclear test site but not enough to indicate an underground atomic explosion is imminent.

In this April 3, 2014, file photo, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much... In a story April 20 about new research showing biofuels made with corn leftovers are worse for global warming than gasoline in the short ... (more)

Another week of hearings at Guantanamo, another series of jaw-dropping revelations and rulings that underline the futility of the whole enterprise.

A military judge on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to turn over never-revealed details about the time a Guantanamo Bay detainee spent in secret CIA prisons after his arrest on in connection with the deadly attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.

The United States military plans to end its combat role in Afghanistan later this year and close the chapter on America's longest-running war, but the Afghan men being held at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay aren't expected to see any changes.

In a recent memo to lawmakers, House Republican leaders ticked off some of their lesser-known victories in the fiscal 2014 appropriations process.

Yahoo News: Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in c Yesterday the Petitioners in the Al Odah case submitted their brief to the Supreme Court.

FROM the freezing top of the world to the steaming jungles of Honduras in under a week, even for the raucous Irish Music band of Denbigh it had been an unusual week.

Defendant Siale Angilau was listening to a witness describe gang initiation rituals on Monday when authorities said he grabbed a pen, rushed toward the witness and lunged at him.

In this Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin, Sept. 11 accused conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammad confers with defense attorney Cheryl Bormann, in black abaya prior to hearing at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Thursday April 17, 2014.