The White House is nearing a bipartisan deal with US lawmakers to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by putting more detainees on trial before military commissions, a report said Friday. The prospective deal would allow military tribunals to try alleged September 11 plotters and other key terrorism suspects in a sharp reversal of White House pledges for civilian trials, the ...

The Obama administration still wants to buy a prison in northwestern Illinois even if it's not used to hold Guantanamo Bay detainees. A Thursday letter from the Justice Department to Republican Congressman Don Manzullo says the department would seek to purchase the facility in ...

Relatives of two Guantanamo detainees whose 2006 deaths at the prison were ruled suicides are seeking to reopen the investigation after new testimony from soldiers who contradict the Pentagon's account, court documents showed. The families asked a federal court in Washington this week to reconsider a February 16 ruling dismissing their case, alleging a "high-level cover-up" in the deaths ...

A witchhunt orchestrated by George W. Bush supporters against government lawyers representing Guantanamo inmates has backfired, as conservatives joined the outcry against the McCarthy-like attacks. "Who are these government officials? Eric Holder would only name two. What's the secrecy behind the other seven? Whose values do they share?" asks the video ad posted online by the conservative group Keep ...