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  1. May 23, 2024 · As of December 2023, 30 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. [1] [2] [3] This list of Guantánamo prisoners has the known identities of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba , but is compiled from various sources and is incomplete.

  2. 3 days ago · Constructed in stages starting in 2002, the Guantánamo Bay detention camp (often called Gitmo, which is also a name for the naval base) was used to house Muslim militants and suspected terrorists captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere (see also Iraq War).

  3. 6 days ago · A large, 45-square-mile (116-square-km) U.S. naval base, which now includes fortifications and airfields, was established by treaty in 1903. Since the 1959 revolution, the Cuban government has protested the U.S. presence and periodically has threatened to seize the base.

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  5. 6 days ago · Since 2002, roughly 780 detainees have been held at the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Now, 30 remain. Of those, 11 have been charged with war crimes in the military...

  6. 6 days ago · Five men are facing charges in the United States military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay of aiding the 19 men who hijacked passenger planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, Pentagon...

  7. May 13, 2024 · Four Uyghur captives in Guantanamo were transferred to Bermuda in June 2009. The move was called controversial first because the United Kingdom still has jurisdiction over Bermuda's foreign affairs, and UK legal scholars argued the government of Bermuda did not have the authority to accept the men.

  8. May 20, 2024 · WASHINGTON — The Biden administration was close to transferring 11 detainees out of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a country in the Middle East in October 2023, but abruptly...

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