Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp News

High school seniors this year were in kindergarten when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001.

"That's rather provocative and offensive, isn't it?" Judge Thomas Griffith asked a government lawyer at a hearing of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

A man who cut off his forearm to free himself after becoming trapped by a dislodged boulder in a Utah canyon is in jail after being arrested in Denver over allegations of domestic violence.

Princeton University is set to start the vaccination of nearly 6,000 students to try to stop an outbreak of type B meningitis.

December is Human Rights month and the 10th of December is Human Rights Day. What better time for President Obama to fulfill his promise of actually closing Guantanamo Bay and to initiate an investigation of violations of human rights by the US government post-9/11? The UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment ... (more)

A well-known lawyer based in St. Johnsbury travels across Vermont to Burlington this week to talk about representing a client who is imprisoned at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Chuck Hagel is in Afghanistan for his first official visit to the country since taking on the role of defense secretary.

Diplomatic sources claim that at a recent dinner, the minister of foreign affairs of Laos, Thongloun Sisoulith, waxed indignant about America's abduction of hundreds of individuals from around the world.

There are no statistics that support the claim of twice the number of troops diagnosed with PTSD.

A British resident locked up at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was heartened by a letter from Foreign Secretary William Hague , a prisoner rights activist said.

Two Guantanamo Bay detainees were repatriated to Algeria on Thursday, a sign of the Obama administration's intensifying efforts to close the controversial detention center.

No matter what Kristen wears, she always manages to look gorgeous and stylish - and now tough! In the latest pic from the set of her upcoming film 'Camp X-Ray,' the actress was all smiles posing next to co-star Tara Holt.

As Congress gets ready to battle on immigration reform next year, it's important to take a look at who will help enforce and shape any kind of immigration overhaul.

When President Obama first ran in 2008, he pledged to close Guantanamo, already an angry embarrassment making people around the world wonder which side of the war on terror the United States was actually on.

In reflecting fondly on Nelson Mandela, we should remember the considerable 'walk' still facing impoverished South Africans, writes John Hilley .

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel arrived in Kabul Saturday afternoon for an unannounced visit that comes as Washington and Afghanistan's president remain at loggerheads over the terms of a plan that would keep American troops here beyond the end of next year.

Back in July of 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Sderot, the southern Israeli city battered by rocket fire from Gaza, and delivered a speech emphasizing Israel's right to defend itself and stressing that "peace should not undermine its security."

U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries may be militarily effective, but they are killing innocent civilians in a way that is obscene and immoral.

Over the past three years, Congress has focused unprecedented attention on reducing federal spending and cutting the deficit.

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp has changed its protocol. Undeterred by criticism about transparency and humans rights violations, officials at the camp will no longer disclose information about detainees on hunger strike.