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The Obama administration could bring foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay prison to the United States only to face prosecution, under a measure that cleared Congress on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will hear arguments from a group of Chinese Muslims who have been imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for more than seven years even after the Pentagon determined they are not threats to the United States.

An Obama administration task force has so far cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as part of its effort to close the detention camp, a military spokesman said on Monday.

Obama considering plan to create courtroom-within-a-prison complex on U.S. soil to house Gitmo detainees

Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says his country will resettle two inmates being freed soon from the Guantanamo prison camp ...

The Pentagon's top lawyer said Friday that the Obama administration has not abandoned the possibility of transferring some prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to a prison in the United States despite strong congressional concerns.

Stymied by Congress so far, the White House is considering issuing an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees considered too dangerous to prosecute or release, two administration officials said Friday.

Three detainees from Guantanamo Bay were transferred to Saudi Arabia "under appropriate security measures," the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday, in another step toward President Barack Obama's goal of closing the prison for terrorism suspects.

In a news conference in Beijing, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, called the detainees “terrorist suspects” and demanded they be sent back to China as soon as possible.

A plan under consideration by the Obama administration would permit Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees facing the death penalty ...