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President Barack Obama released a 17-minute statement on Tuesday and an official document outlining his plan for closing Guantanamo Bay prison.  One of the President’s first foreign policy goals after taking office in January 2009 was to end the detentions at the facility on Cuban soil. Republicans in Congress have …

Via Miami Herald: “The Guantánamo parole board on Thursday approved the release of a Yemeni “forever prisoner,” dismissing U.S. intelligence that imprisoned the man for 13 years at the Navy base in Cuba as “discredited.” The so-called Periodic Review Board heard the case of Mustafa al Shamiri, 37, on Dec. …

At least 19 people have been killed in a deadly assault on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Pakistan that began at 4:30 GMT and lasted nearly three hours. It is suspected that Pakistani affiliates of the Taliban were behind the attack due to its noted similarities to the Taliban …

Tamara Fields, an American woman whose husband Lloyd was killed by a Jordanian police captain, is suing Twitter for allowing ISIS to recruit new members, raise money and spread its message on the popular social media network.  ISIS claimed responsibility for the November 9th death of her husband, an Army Veteran. …

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104 detainees remain with one year to go in Obama’s presidency.  On Sunday White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough revealed in an interview that Obama is preparing a plan to submit to Congress to close down the U.S. detainment facility in Guantanamo Bay for good, a promise he made in his …

“An Islamic State militant carried out a public “execution” of his mother because she asked him to leave the group, activists say. Ali Saqr, 21, killed his mother, Lena al-Qasem, 45, outside the post office in Raqqa, Syria, eyewitnesses said.” Full Story – BBC