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WASHINGTON: Weakened by a prolonged hunger strike, Yemeni detainees who have languished at Guantanamo Bay for years see growing hope of finally returning home after a ban on transfers to Yemen was lifted.

Neil Macdonald is the senior Washington correspondent for CBC News, which he joined in 1988 following 12 years in newspapers.

Video: President Obama's speech on counterterrorism Thursday touched on drones, renewed efforts to close Guantanamo Bay, and was interrupted by a loud heckler.

During Barack Obama 's almost hour-long televised speech centered on the overall topic of terrorism , the Commander-in-Chief placed the cross hairs of blame directly on an implied rouge, law breaking nation: the United States of America, as posted in a transcription of Obama's speech by the National Constitution Center via Yahoo! News on May 23, ... (more)

President Barack Obama was heckled Thursday by leftist terrorist ally Susan 'Medea' Benjamin while giving a speech on national security issues at the National Defense University at Ft.

President Barack Obama's big speech Thursday at the National Defense University was interrupted - loudly - by Medea Benjamin , co-founder of Code Pink, a group that has long protested the U.S. wars and counterterrorism policies.

Washington, May 24: Making a shift from a boundless "global war on terror", US President Barack Obama Thursday announced a new counter-terrorism policy narrowing the use of drones that has put it at odds with key allies like Pakistan.

Early on, the president promised to shutter the prison in a year's time. Then a plan came late and Democratic allies were abandoned.

Twelve years after the "war on terror" began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants.

"A perpetual war, through drones or Special Forces or troop deployments, will prove self-defeating," Mr.

Lifting the ban is a step toward Obama's goal of closing the Navy-run prison in Cuba since nearly 100 of the 166 terrorist suspects held there are from Yemen and have had nowhere to go even if they had been cleared for transfer.

An American flag flying over Camp VI, where detainees are housed at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.

Today, Barack Obama will give a speech about drones. And about other stuff, like closing Guantanamo , but primarily about drones.

Actor James Cromwell delivered this speech after receiving the Justice in the Arts Award from Death Penalty Focus at its dinner May 16 in Beverly Hills.

Last week, we made our way to the book launch of Dirty Wars - the world is a battlefield" by former New York Catholic Worker now celebrated investigatory journalist Jeremy Scahill http://dirtywars.org/jeremy-scahill Jeremy gave an excellent speech naming Guantanamo as the most visible point of a massive iceberg of a U.S. policy of torture and ... (more)

U.S. drone strikes have killed four American citizens in counterterrorism operations overseas since 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said today, the Obama administration's first public acknowledgment of those killings.

The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million to maintain and upgrade the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama says he wants to close.

The US military has blocked Internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba following online hacking threats from the group, Anonymous.

Robert Stefanicki interviews RAMZI KASSEM, associate professor of law at the City University of New York and a lawyer who defends prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.