The US government, on order from a federal judge in a case brought by ex-detainees, released eight redacted videos showing forced feedings at Guantánamo Bay prison.
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.
The US State Department finds that the number of "terrorist attacks" around the world rose by a third in 2014, largely due to the expansion of ISIS and Boko Haram.
Six Guantánamo detainees were transferred to Oman—the first such transfers in five months. Republicans meanwhile prepare legislation to bar further transfers.
Key provisions of the USA Patriot Act allowing "Bulk Data Collection" and "Roving Wiretaps" expired after a late Senate vote failed to establish an extension.
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.
Khalid al-Fawwaz, former aide of Osama bin Laden, was found guilty of plotting the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
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.
