Guantanamo Bay

The brothers’ release was the latest U.S. move toward emptying and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released. The White House and family members said Monday his release came in an exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord jailed in the United States. Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran who spent more than a decade in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor,...

The Biden administration has been quietly laying the groundwork to release prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center and at least move closer to being able to shut it down.

Advocates for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center were hopeful when President Joe Biden took office.

The U.S. Navy says one of its warships has paused its deployment to South America because of a coronavirus outbreak.