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9/11 defendant ruled unfit for trial after military medical panel finds CIA torture left him psychotic
A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the 9/11 defendants too mentally ill to stand trial.
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Taliban face no major opposition to rule 2 years after US withdrawal. Women and girls pay the harshest price.
After two years in power, the Taliban are entrenched as rulers of Afghanistan, facing no significant opposition that could topple them.
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Cuba calls presence of US nuclear submarine at Guantanamo Bay a ‘provocative escalation'
A statement from Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the submarine was at the U.S. naval base on the island from July 5 to July 8. It gave no more details.
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Guantanamo detainees tell first independent visitor about scars from torture and hopes to leave
At the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, the aging men known by their serial numbers arrived at the meeting shackled.
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Pakistani Brothers Freed From Guantanamo Bay After 21 Years in Custody
The brothers’ release was the latest U.S. move toward emptying and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
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US Contractor Freed by Taliban in Swap for Drug Trafficker
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,...