Larry Ryan was no longer enjoying his weekly six-a-side. So he tried out the Alan Shearer fitness regime Speedflex for six weeks. Could he find form? Or even get fit? 

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Oman says it has accepted 10 inmates from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay ahead of Barack Obama leaving office.

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Wikileaks’ Julian Assange has vowed to defend the organisation against attack after his intervention in the US presidential election, writes Dan Buckley

Fifteen prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre were sent to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest release of detainees during the Obama administration, the Pentagon announced yesterday.

Officials in Washington know their hometown is a target for terrorists. But, despite the huge resources ploughed into preventing attacks, there are still issues with the city’s defences, writes Jeff Stein

Barack Obama described being greeted by Prince George in his pyjamas as a “slap in the face” during his last speech as US President at the star-studded White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

WHEN US President Barack Obama first took office in January 2009 the first executive order he signed was for the closure of the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

US president Barack Obama urged lawmakers to give his plan to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay a “fair hearing” and said he did not want to pass the issue to his successor when he leaves the White House next year.

US President Barack Obama has backed Pentagon plans to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

US army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan and became a prisoner of the Taliban for five years, will face court-martial on charges of desertion and endangering US troops, army officials said yesterday.

A Yemeni prisoner at the US base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba appears to have been the victim of mistaken identity, suspected of being a significant member of al Qaeda and not just a low-level Islamic fighter, officials said in documents.

Hungarian police have launched an investigation after an online video showed a crowd of migrants being fed “like animals in a pen”.

The White House is in the final stage of drafting a plan for closing the Guantanamo prison for foreign terrorism suspects, racing against time to resolve one of President Barack Obama’s most intractable problems.

There are mounting calls for Guantanamo inmate Shaker Aamer to be allowed back home to Britain as he faces his 13th anniversary in the camp.

It’s been revealed (Amy Goodman, Democracy Now) that a secret CIA “Black Site” prison existed within Guantanamo in which prisoners may have been tortured and subjected to mind altering drugs. 

The United States has returned four Afghans from Guantanamo Bay back to their home country.

The Vatican has asked the US to find an “adequate humanitarian solution” for prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, a reflection of Pope Francis’s vocal concern that prisoners be treated with dignity and not be subject to inhumane treatment.

The Vatican is asking the United States to find an “adequate humanitarian solution” for prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.

Six prisoners from Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Uruguay, the US government has revealed.

The report “Decaying Guantánamo Defies Closing Plans” (New York Times, Sept 1) makes depressing reading. Not only is the prison camp decaying, so are its prisoners. 

Loosely based on a torture incident in Guantanamo,Colette Sheridanfinds there’s more to Aaron Sorkin’s play than men who can’t handle the truth

The former pastor of the parents of a US soldier released from Taliban captivity after nearly five years says they have been “really hurt” by claims that he was a traitor and the outpouring of anger towards their family.

The Taliban released a video showing Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl being handed over to US forces and bundled into a helicopter in eastern Afghanistan.

Nearly five years after his capture by insurgents, Sgt Bowe Bergdahl’s "safety and health were both in jeopardy" and officials had to act quickly to obtain his release, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said yesterday.

The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed and is in US custody, according to US officials.

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.

There are thousands of excellent Gardaí, like Maurice McCabe and John Wilson.

A 79-year-old disabled grandmother who refused to enter into a court bond to stay out of any unauthorised zone at Shannon Airport has been sent to prison to serve a three-month sentence.

President Barack Obama has met two special envoys for closing Guantanamo Bay and recommitted to shutting down the Cuba jail.

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.

The Yemen-based branch of al-Qaida said a US drone strike has killed a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who rose to become the group’s No 2 figure.

A huge database of troop names and email addresses a US army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyber attacks on service members, a government witness said as the trial of Bradley Manning entered its third week.

For more than three months, the US military has faced off with defiant prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, strapping down as many as 44 each day to feed them a liquid nutrient mix through a nasal tube.

How some people are glad the summit is in town, for very different reasons.

Barack Obama has offered his most vigorous public defence of drone strikes, describing them as legal, effective and necessary.

The Pentagon is asking for nearly $450m to maintain and upgrade the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.

At a press conference in late April, US president Barack Obama was asked to comment on the hunger strike unfolding among prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

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

When it comes to politicians, actions really do speak louder than words.