JIM MATTIS GIVES PEP TALK TO GUANTANAMO TROOPS, TELLS THEM TO BE NORTH KOREA-READY

Mattis did not discuss the Trump administration's plans for the detention center, nor did he visit it... READ MORE›

PENTAGON ISSUES DENIAL AFTER U.N. RIGHTS INVESTIGATOR SAYS TORTURE PERSISTS AT GUANTANAMO BAY

An independent U.N. human rights investigator said on Wednesday that he had information about an inmate being tortured at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention... READ MORE›

FIRST STEP TO ELECT CASTRO SUCCESSOR

After voting, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez told reporters that the Cuban electoral process represents an alternative to other electoral processes ruled by money and corporations ... READ MORE›

CUBA HOLDS MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AS POST-CASTRO ERA NEARS

Cuba has held its first municipal elections a year after the death of Fidel Castro... READ MORE›

CUBANS GO TO MUNICIPAL POLLS IN FIRST STAGE OF ENDING CASTRO ERA

Raul Castro will remain head of the Communist Party until 2021, the only legal party in Cuba... READ MORE›

GUANTANAMO DETAINEE: US CHANGED FORCE-FEEDING POLICY

300 calories a day Rabbani, a Pakistani citizen of Rohingya origin, began his hunger strike in 2013... READ MORE›

EX-GITMO DETAINEE SUES CANADA FOR ALLEGED TORTURE ROLE

Algerian Djamel Ameziane says Canada was complicit in his detention and torture at US-run Guantanamo Bay prison... READ MORE›

DESPITE TOUGH TALK, TRUMP FOLLOWS OBAMA'S COURSE ON TRYING TERROR SUSPECTS

Donald Trump promised he would fill the military prison at Guantanamo Bay with bad dudes and slammed the Obama administration for prosecuting terrorists... READ MORE›

TRUMP TWEETS THAT SUSPECT IN FATAL NYC ATTACK 'SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY'

SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY! Eight dead in truck attack on New York City bike path... READ MORE›

NYC ATTACK: GROUPS BLAST TRUMP'S GUANTANAMO COMMENTS

McMullen pointed to Trump's response to a deadly attack at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12... READ MORE›

TRUMP VOWS JUSTICE AS US CAPTURES KEY BENGHAZI MILITANT

Earlier this month, another man accused in the Benghazi attack, Abu Khattala, went on trial in federal court in Washington... READ MORE›

THE WILDEST JFK FILES DISCOVERIES SO FAR, FROM STRIPPERS TO ASSASSINATION PLOTS

CIA plots to kill Castro Some of the papers recounted the agency's well-chronicled schemes to kill Fidel Castro... READ MORE›

STRIPPERS, SURVEILLANCE AND ASSASSINATION PLOTS: THE WILDEST REVELATIONS IN THE JFK FILES | TORONTO STAR

It quotes FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover saying, more and more we are telling CIA about our domestic operations and always to our detriment... READ MORE›

AMERICAN HELD AS ISIS SUSPECT, CREATING A QUANDARY FOR THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Investigators have also identified a personnel file in a cache of seized Islamic State documents that appears to be about the captive, the official said... READ MORE›

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FIDEL CASTRO CUBAN LEADER WHO DEFIED US DIES AT 90

Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied U.S., Dies at 90... READ MORE›

WORLD LEADERS REACT TO FIDEL CASTRO'S DEATH

President Obama issued a statement Saturday morning A Today, we offer condolences to Fidel Castro's family, and our thoughts and prayers are with the Cuban people... READ MORE›

U.S. FLAG STAYS HIGH IN HAVANA WHILE OTHERS AT HALF-STAFF FOR FIDEL CASTRO

Other foreign embassies in Havana lowered their flags this week in tribute to Fidel Castro... READ MORE›

CASTRO CREMATION BREAKS PATTERN OF COMMUNIST DICTATORS ON PERMANENT DISPLAY

Augusto Pinochet, Chile's army chief and Cuban leader Fidel Castro salute in 1971 during Castro's visit to Chile... READ MORE›

WORLD LEADERS BID FAREWELL TO FIDEL CASTRO

People attend a memorial service for Cuba's late President Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana... READ MORE›

A senior Taliban commander in the Pakistani city of Quetta said that 12 years of incarceration had also caused some psychological problems for Noori and Fazl... READ MORE›

GUANTANAMO IS A STAIN ON OBAMA'S LEGACY

Shaker Aamer says he endured torture by US authorities during his 14 years jailed in Guantanamo Bay detention centre... READ MORE›

JUSTIN TRUDEAU SLAMMED FOR STATEMENT ON FIDEL CASTRO'S DEATH

Justin Trudeau posted a written statement early Saturday after the late-night announcement that Castro had died at the age of 90... READ MORE›

RAUL CASTRO ANNOUNCES CUBA WILL BAN THE NAMING OF SITES IN FIDEL CASTRO'S HONOUR

Raul Castro announces Cuba will ban the naming of sites in Fidel Castro's honour... READ MORE›

'MUSLIMS DIED AND MUSLIMS SURVIVED 9/11'

Muslims-Americans affected by key flashpoints that have shaped the US post 9 11 reflect on this year's anniversary and current attitude toward them... READ MORE›

CUBA ALLIES JOIN THOUSANDS TO HONOR CASTRO IN HAVANA

But the people in Cuba aren't that bothered, what really matters to them is that they themselves mark the life of Fidel Castro... READ MORE›

FIDEL CASTRO FUNERAL PRESENTS DILEMMA FOR WORLD LEADERS

The Canadian prime minister's office said on Monday that he will not attend the funeral even though Castro attended the funeral of his father, Pierre Trudeau... READ MORE›

PHILIPPE COUILLARD DEFENDS JUSTIN TRUDEAU OVER CASTRO COMMENTS

Fidel Castro was a giant of the 20th century... READ MORE›

FIDEL CASTRO, A SOUTH AFRICAN HERO

Angola survived in large part because Cuba sent its soldiers to give their lives for the freedom of the people of Angola, Namibia and South Africa... READ MORE›

WITH FINAL DETAINEE TRANSFER, OBAMA'S GUANTANAMO POLICY TAKES ITS LAST BREATH

Obama's inability to close Guantanamo after eight years in office empowers President-elect Donald Trump to keep the prison operational... READ MORE›

AFGHAN ISIS BRANCH MAKES INROADS IN BATTLE AGAINST TALIBAN

He was released in 2005, and joined the Pakistani Taliban before defecting to the new Islamic State branch... READ MORE›

US FREES SIX GUANTANAMO DETAINEES

Related Stories The US government says it has released six Guantanamo Bay detainees and sent them to Uruguay for resettlement... READ MORE›

TRUMP SAYS NO MORE DETAINEES SHOULD BE RELEASED FROM GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON

The largest release to date occurred in August, when the United States transferred 15 detainees to the United Arab Emirates... READ MORE›

FIDEL CASTRO'S LAST GOAL? A FOOTBALL PITCH FOR KIDS

Fidel Castro's African legacy Friendship and freedom Jennifer Diaz, a 14-year-old ninth-grader, was able to get a picture of Castro... READ MORE›

PENTAGON TRANSFERS 5 YEMENIS BEING HELD AT GUANTANAMO BAY TO UAE

Late last year, the administration moved three Yemeni prisoners to Kazakhstan... READ MORE›

CUBANS GATHER IN HAVANA TO BID FAREWELL TO FIDEL CASTRO

A cortege will carry Castro's remains east across the 1,200km-long, eyebrow-shaped island to Santiago de Cuba... READ MORE›

GUANTANAMO BAY: OBAMA SENDS CLOSURE PLAN TO CONGRESS

President Barack Obama's long-awaited plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility was delivered to Congress Tuesday morning... READ MORE›

FIDEL CASTRO IS DEAD, BUT CUBANS WANT SOME OF HIS POLICIES TO CONTINUE

HAVANA -- El Romerillo is the kind of neighborhood one might think twice about entering in any other country than Cuba... READ MORE›

CUBANS IN THEIR THOUSANDS QUEUE BEFORE DAWN TO BID FAREWELL TO FIDEL CASTRO

The route will retrace his Caravan of Liberty the journey he made from Santiago to Havana in 1959, to announce that his guerrilla army had taken over... READ MORE›

CROWDS PAY LAST RESPECTS TO FIDEL CASTRO IN SANTIAGO

Fidel Castro's ashes will be placed in the Ifigenia Cemetery, where Cuban independence hero Jose Marti is buried... READ MORE›

Some Defense Department officials have expressed concern that prisoners released from the prison may return to take on the American troops who remain in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

ABOUT 12 RELEASED GUANTANAMO DETAINEES IMPLICATED IN ATTACKS ON AMERICANS

Edward R. Royce R-Calif., who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has also written legislation that would require greater transparency surrounding the transfer of Guantanamo detainees... READ MORE›

TRUMP THREATENS TO TERMINATE US-CUBA DEAL

US President-elect Donald Trump says the Cuban government must improve the deal on offer... READ MORE›

FIDEL CASTRO'S NAME & IMAGE TO BE KEPT OFF CUBAN STREETS TO AVOID CULT OF PERSONALITY

The ashes of Fidel Castro are to be laid to rest in a mausoleum in Santiago's Santa Ifigenia cemetery alongside Cuban independence hero Jose Marti... READ MORE›

TRUMP CONSIDERING RETIRED GENERAL WHO CLASHED WITH OBAMA, EX-BUSH OFFICIAL FOR HOMELAND SECURITY

It is unclear how seriously Kobach is under consideration for DHS, but he is a strong Trump supporter who helped influence the president-elect's views on immigration... READ MORE›