Google will show Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of America" and Alaska's Denali as "Mount McKinley" in the United States once the ...

President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed.

Of the 780 people ever detained at Guantánamo, 540 were released during the presidency of George W. Bush, who established the ...

The new administration does not yet have a confirmed defense secretary, attorney general or solicitor general in place.

The Taliban government said Tuesday it had released two American citizens from prison in return for an Afghan fighter held in ...

A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure ...

Prolonged negotiations took place between the US and the Taliban over this matter. Trump had initially rejected the idea of ...

The prisoner swap was brokered before President Joe Biden left office Monday, according to a Trump administration official.

Two other American captives remain in Afghanistan: George Glezmann, a former airline mechanic, and Mahmood Habibi, a ...

Americans Ryan Corbett and William W. McKenty III were freed, their families said. The Taliban said Khan Mohammed, an Afghan ...

Guantanamo became a blueprint for other forms of extrajudicial detention, torture, and human rights abuses worldwide. The prison’s legacy is evident in the proliferation of CIA black sites, the ...

But Biden's team achieved a breakthrough in the case last summer: Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed agreed to plead guilty and serve life in prison in exchange for taking the death ...