U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday the United States plans to transfer the al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners it now holds to the U.S. naval base at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo ...

President Obama has lifted the two-year ban on new military tribunals for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba he enacted after becoming president. MSNBC’s First Read blog notes the decision does not ...

WASHINGTON – Three detainees at Guantanamo Bay apparently committed suicide amid protests of the U.S. military prison by inmates, the Defense Department said Saturday. They were the first reported ...

The first prisoner to face a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay during the Obama Administration will be Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the bombing of the US destroyer Cole in 2000 ...

"The only specifications he was convicted of are offenses that were added after the fact by the Military Commissions Act of 2006, long after he was confined here in Guantanamo Bay." Critics of the ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is giving no free passes to the commander in chief. Pressed by the Bush administration to stay out of a wartime powers case, the court jumped in anyway. The justices ...

President Barack Obama has been never been a fan of the military tribunals used for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So it is understandable that human rights advocates were surprised ...

America's first war crimes trial since World War II got underway today in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The defendant, Salim Ahymed Hamdan, will provide a test case for military tribunals criticized by ...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The Pentagon announced Tuesday that it has formed a five-member military tribunal to try three terrorism suspects held at this U.S. naval base. The Pentagon's ...

The pending prosecution of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed means that the United States may convict and execute the alleged architect of the 9-11 attacks. But it is unclear how much the public will know about ...

Meghan Rice, a 3L, shared observations from her trip to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba with her hometown newspaper, the Cherry Hill Sun, on May 12. Rice attended court hearings for Abd al-Rahim ...