Just 15 men remain at the prison, down from hundreds when it opened 23 years ago. But the costly operation could go on for years.

Cuba. AP Austin, 71, revoked the shocking plea deals three days after word got out but a military judge determined in November that the plea agreements were valid and dismissed the Pentagon chief ...

The Biden administration offered plea deals last year to alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and co-conspirators Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi. All three men have been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2003.

the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. As the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and launched military operations elsewhere in response, it looked offshore, to a swath of Cuba leased by the U.S. Navy for a century, to imprison and judge the hundreds it ...

Guantanamo Bay housed roughly 680 prisoners at the detention center's peak in 2003, according to Pentagon data. The latest transfer of the 11 men, all of whom are from Yemen, leaves the U.S. naval base in Cuba with fewer detainees than when it opened with ...

The Biden administration has doubled down on its unusual court battle to derail a plea deal that the government itself had reached with accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

The Justice Department, on behalf of the Pentagon, on Tuesday asked an appeals ... court authority at Guantanamo Bay, the facility in Cuba where the men are being held. A military appeals court ...

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, appeared at the Capitol today for a contentious four-hour confirmation hearing. Democratic senators repeatedly called him unfit to lead the Pentagon, but Republicans — who alone can confirm Hegseth — offered almost nothing but support.