The last British prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay has spent his first night back in the UK after almost 14 years.

Officials deny that the force-feeding of hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay breaks any human rights rules or is a form of torture, reports Shona Murray in Guantanamo Bay.

WHICH Irish politician would you like to see taken to Guantanamo Bay and water-boarded until they told the truth?

A defence lawyer who gained rare access to an ultra-secret section of the Guantanamo Bay prison said yesterday it does not meet international standards under the Geneva Convention.

A Guantanamo Bay detainee said he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the US prison.

Months of increased tension at the Guantanamo Bay prison boiled over into a clash between guards and detainees as the military closed a communal section of the jail and moved inmates into single cells.

British spies are expected to find out whether they will face charges today over their alleged complicity in the torture of terror suspects.

A Saudi man considered among the most senior figures in al-Qaida has emerged from nine years of secret confinement to face charges of orchestrating the deadly attack on the USS Cole, in the start of a new round of Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals under a president who vowed to halt them.

The UK government is set to pay out millions of pounds in compensation to former detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.

A Guantanamo jury has recommended a 14-year sentence for an al Qaida cook, though he could be released much sooner under a plea bargain that will limit the time he spends in prison.

The Guantanamo tribunal system was preparing today for its first trial under President Barack Obama.

Three detainees from Guantanamo Bay were transferred from the island prison to the country of Georgia.

The White House acknowledged for the first time that it might not be able to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay by January as President Barack Obama promised.

Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has confirmed that Ireland will accept two detainees being released from the US internment camp at Guatanamo Bay.

The White House is considering whether to issue an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, concerned that the US Congress might otherwise stymie its plans to quickly close the naval prison in Cuba.

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 last night.

Bermuda’s premier survived a no-confidence vote today aimed at punishing him for allowing four former Guantanamo prisoners to settle on the British island territory.

Four Chinese Muslims who arrived in Bermuda after being freed from Guantanamo have remained in their seaside cottage, wary of the political firestorm their presence has caused.

The first Guantanamo Bay detainee was today flown to the United States to face trial for bombing US embassies.

A detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, US military officials said.

Guantanamo Bay has “weakened” US national security and become a “rallying cry” for America's enemies, President Barack Obama said today as he sought to convince Congress of the need to close the base.

Amnesty International Ireland is calling on the Taoiseach to follow in France's footsteps and accept Guantanamo detainees into Ireland.

President Barack Obama is to resume controversial military trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees in a move attacked by human rights activists.

US president Barack Obama will announce today that he will resume the Bush-era military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees he once condemned, but with new legal protections for terror suspects.

The Obama administration may revamp and restart the Bush-era military trial system for suspected terrorists as it struggles to determine the fate of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and fulfil a pledge to close the prison by January.

The North was urged today to provide a home for prisoners freed from Guantanamo Bay.

A British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years arrived back in the UK today.

A British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years is expected to be released today, his lawyer said.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin told the Dáil this afternoon that his department has had no contact from the new US administration in relation to taking inmates from Guantanamo.

EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels today held preliminary talks on informal calls from Washington to grant asylum to as many as 60 Guantanamo inmates against whom America has insufficient evidence to prosecute, but who cannot be sent back to their own countries once Guantanamo closes, for fear of torture and persecution.

President Barack Obama will begin overhauling US national security policy today with orders to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, review military trials of terror suspects and end harsh interrogations.

US president Barack Obama will sign an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre within a year and halt military trials of terror suspects held there, a senior aide said last night.

The US Department of Defence said today it would seek a 120-day halt to the war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay, pending a review by President Barack Obama.

A US judge has ordered the military to release a Guantanamo Bay detainee who was arrested in Pakistan when he was 14.

The US government was today accused of “farce” after dropping all charges against a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay.

A Moroccan prisoner released from the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2004, was Osama bin Laden’s top bodyguard, the war crimes trial of the terror leader’s driver heard.

The judge in the first American war crimes trial since the Second World War barred evidence obtained by interrogators from Osama bin Laden’s driver, ruling he was subjected to “highly coercive” conditions in Afghanistan.

The first Guantanamo war crimes trial began today with a not guilty plea from a former driver and alleged bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.

Human rights protesters today urged the North's politicians to tackle US President George Bush on the issue of prisoner treatment when he visits Belfast tomorrow.

The imminent start of war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay has been thrown into doubt by a US Supreme Court ruling that detainees have constitutional rights and can appeal to civilian courts.

The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify about potentially harsh treatment of detainees, a military defence lawyer said.

The US military expects a confrontational hearing when the accused mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks and four alleged confederates are brought before a Marine colonel presiding over their war-crimes tribunal.