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Alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks returned to the war court Monday for a week-long pretrial hearing, four months after defense lawyers discovered listening devices in their confidential meeting rooms.
Guantánamo's chief war crimes prosecutor predicts there will be just seven more war crimes trials after 9/11, USS Cole death cases.
Cuban dissidents say their trips abroad are giving them more energy and ambitions, as well as more supporters and contacts globally.
The military has joined the fight against escalating crime in the Dominican Republic, leading some to question the effectiveness of the country’s 35,000-member police force.
Writers in an influential medical journal are urging a mutiny at the U.S. Navy base prison where, as of Thursday, Navy medics were tube-feeding 43 hunger strikers
Ecuador passed a sweeping new media law Friday that will increase the number of state-run and community run broadcasters at the expense of private outlets.
Pentagon prosecutors and defense lawyers in the USS Cole death penalty case held the first closed hearing of the Obama war court Friday, a 78-minute secret session that excluded both the public and the accused al-Qaida terrorist.
USB drives that can be easily hidden and texts that can be sent to large groups are among new methods Radio/TV Marti is using to get information inside Cuba.
An elderly Toronto man became the first Canadian convicted of sex crimes committed against children in Cuba after he pleaded guilty Friday to six counts, including little-used child sex tourism charges.
As seven Cubans held in Mexico demand their freedom, another 19 boat people have landed on the Yucatan Peninsula.
Judge orders first closed war court motions, locks out both accused and public in Guantánamo death penalty case.
Remittances to Cuba have increased to almost $1 billion during the last four years of the Obama administration, which relaxed policies to allow Cubans to send more money to the island.
The court-marshal of an Army private who sent troves of classified documents to WikiLeaks is turning to information gathered from Guantánamo Bay detainees.
An Australian swimmer is set to launch a historic attempt to cross the Florida Straits on Wednesday.
In continuing tug-of-war over attorney-client conditions, defense lawyer for alleged al-Qaida bomber asks Guantánamo judge to order prison to let attorney bring spiral notebooks, pens and eyeglasses to prison camp meetings.
A classified motion in the case of a Saudi man accused of arranging the October 2000 USS Cole bombing is so secret that the public can’t know its name.
Relatives of the late Oswaldo Payá say they will settle in South Florida like other Cubans but have no plans to seek asylum.
More than two weeks after the president promised a renewed effort to empty Guantánamo, two special senior envoy posts remain empty.
President Barack Obama’s chief of staff toured the Guantánamo detention center on Friday with Senators Dianne Feinstein and John McCain — and all three promptly issued a joint statement supporting closure of the controversial prison camps in southeast Cuba.
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