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 ...

"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 (AP) — The Pentagon's senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole ...

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 ...

Afghan Corpse-Urinating Marine Pleads Guilty, Will Have Rank ReducedIt’s a much lighter sentence than the judge wanted. 9/11 Suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Will Get a Military Trial in Gitmo ...

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailiani was captured in Pakistan, held for five years at a CIA “black site,” then moved to Guantanamo Bay. Today’s verdict is sure to fuel the debate over civilian courts and military ...

No trial date has been set for the five men charged at Guantanamo Bay in the 9/11 attacks. Confessed mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants were arraigned on capital charges in ...

The base, sometimes referred to as “Gitmo,” is located in southeastern Cuba, on the coast of Guantánamo Bay. The United States has been leasing the 45 square miles that the base sits on since 1903.