Guantanamo Bay News

While speaking at the National Defense University at Fort McNair, D.C., on Thursday, President Obama rejected the idea of a "global war on terror " and called for the transfer of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to the United States, the Weekly Standard reported.

Warning of the danger of keeping America on a "perpetual wartime footing," President Obama called for an end to the war on terror, explaining, "Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue, but this war, like all wars, must end - that's what history advises; that's what our democracy demands." Flanked by several GOP ... (more)

In this July 16, 2009 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, flags hang above the sign marking the Camp Justice compound, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.

Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial resume deliberations Thursday after they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time... The judge in the Jodi Arias murder trial declared a mistrial in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it ... (more)

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.

Guantanamo Bay's detention facility opened in 2002 with 700 detainees. More than a decade later, 166 remain and more than half are in political limbo, waiting for the Obama administration and Congress to decide whether to close the prison.

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

This week, four House Armed Services Subcommittees begin their markups of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act.

Barack Obama will renew his failed vow to close Guantanamo Bay and argue his drone war is legal and just Thursday, in a speech reframing US anti-terror policy that will shape his presidential legacy.

President Barack Obama will lay out the rationale for U.S. drone strikes in a speech on Thursday, a White House official said.

The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more transparency to Congress in his counterterrorism policy.

Barack Obama will speak at the National Defense University tomorrow, where's he's expected to address his counterterrorism policies, including targeted killings, the war on Al-Qaeda, and closing Guantanamo Bay.

The Pentagon is requesting more than $450 from lawmakers for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay camp.

Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation and the author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden -- From 9/11 to Abbottabad," the basis for the HBO documentary "Manhunt" that will be shown on CNN on May 24.

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As if continuing revelations on many controversial topics for the Obama administration weren't bad enough, another issue inherited by President continues to play out on a daily basis: what is happening to the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay ? As protest against their on-going imprisonment up to 100 inmates are taking part in a hunger strike ; yet ... (more)

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.

The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say.

It may seem strange that a Mountain Top lawyer who just earned a partnership with a firm near his hometown would take a nine-month hiatus to Cuba.

For the first time in years, the Obama administration appears to be focused on shuttering the Guantanamo Bay prison and - at a minimum - has redoubled its efforts to reduce the number of people held there.