In the face of growing criticism over the treatment of detainees, Pentagon officials have decided to make public all of the military's interrogation techniques. Complete Story
Justice Department employees involved in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Sept. 11 detainees must disclose whether they know of any government monitoring of conversations between the detainees and their attorneys, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Fifteen Saudi Arabians were released on Thursday from the detention center at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transferred to their home country, the Pentagon said.
He has a flowing white beard, can't hear or see very well and, according to his lawyer, uses a walker to hobble around the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
After years of secrecy, the Pentagon has disclosed the names, ages and home countries of everyone held at the isolated Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in southeastern Cuba as a suspect in the U.S.-led war on terror.
Taking issue with the International Committee of the Red Cross, the State Department said Friday the United States is not obliged under the Geneva conventions to give the committee access to all prisoners under U.S. jurisdiction.
A top Chinese official accused the United States Friday of hindering the global anti-terror campaign by refusing to hand over five Chinese Muslims released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
The head of the international Red Cross on Friday deplored the Bush administration's refusal to allow its delegates to visit detainees in secret detention.
China on Tuesday blasted a U.S. decision to release five Chinese Muslims from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to seek asylum in Albania, describing them as suspected terrorists and demanding their return.
The plight of five Chinese detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has come to an end, the State Department disclosed Friday. Albania has agreed to take in the detainees and is considering their applications for asylum.
Two years after a prisoner abuse scandal rocked the U.S. military, officials are still wrangling over how best to guide troops on the handling of detainees to ensure that such mistreatment does not happen again.
A chorus of complaints against the Bush administration erupted Thursday after the Pentagon released a previously secret list of the names and nationalities of 558 people held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay.
The U.S. government released the most extensive list yet of the hundreds of detainees who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison — nearly all labeled enemy combatants, but only a handful of whom have faced formal charges.
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a long-shot appeal filed on behalf of two Chinese Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay while the U.S. government tries to find a country to take them.
Anguish. Anger. Resignation. More than 2,700 pages of documents released by the Pentagon in response to an Associated Press lawsuit are saturated with emotion from detainees held in this U.S. military base.
America risks convicting the innocent and letting the guilty evade justice in how it handles detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the military attorney defending an Australian terror suspect held at the U.S. prison camp said Monday.
The U.S. military released more than 350 detainees in Iraq on Saturday, a statement said. The releases were recommended by a review committee consisting of U.S. officers and Iraqi officials from the ministries of human rights, justice and interior, which found no reason to hold them, the military statement said.
The Associated Press sued the Defense Department on Monday for the release of records identifying all past and current detainees at a U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A hardened holy warrior, eager to kill U.S. troops. An Afghan peasant concerned only with feeding his family. A wealthy Londoner who says he spied for British intelligence.
A timeline of major developments in The Associated Press lawsuit seeking information about Guantanamo detainees:
A federal judge on Thursday questioned the government's treatment of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay who says he underwent forced feedings so painful that he gave up his hunger strike.
Lawyers for two Chinese Muslims held at a U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, want a federal appeals court to order their release inside the United States.
More than half of the terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay have not been accused of committing hostile acts against the United States or its allies, two of the detainees' lawyers said in a report released Tuesday.
An Iraqi detainee held at the U.S.-controlled Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad has died in custody and an investigation is under way, the military said Monday.