A US judge rejected a legal challenge from a Guantánamo detainee who claimed his detention was illegal due to the supposed end of US combat operations in Afghanistan.
Six Guantánamo detainees were transferred to Oman—the first such transfers in five months. Republicans meanwhile prepare legislation to bar further transfers.
The Polish government processed payments to two terror suspects currently held by the US at Guantánamo Bay, who were apparently tortured at a CIA base in Poland.
A judge for the Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that former Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr can be released on bail while he appeals his US war crimes conviction.
The US Court of Military Commission Review set aside the terrorism conviction of former Guantánamo detainee David Hicks, finding that "material support" ia not a war crime.
Adel Abdel Bary was convicted in New York of his role in the 1998 African embassy bombings. His extradition had been challenged before the European Court of Human Rights.
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.
A group of US senators led by John McCain proposed legislation that would place a moratorium on the release or transfer of prisoners from Guantánamo Bay.
The convening authority for the Office of Military Commissions overturned the conviction of ex-Gitmo detainee Noor Uthman Muhammed, who has been repatriated to Sudan.
The Defense Department announced that five prisoners at Guantánamo Bay will be released to Kazakhstan, bringing the number of detainees remaining at the facility to 127.
The US Department of Defense repatriated four Guantánamo Bay detainees to Afghanistan, despite restrictions on detainee transfers in the new defense spending bill.
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" employed during the Bush administration were "ineffective," finds a long-awaited report by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
