U.S. sends 11 Guantánamo prisoners to Oman to start new lives The secret mission left the smallest number of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay since the day the detention center opened in 2002.

January 6, 2025   

(NY Times) The U.S. military sent 11 Yemeni prisoners at Guantánamo Bay to Oman to restart their lives, the Pentagon said on Monday, leaving just 15 men in the prison in a bold push at [the] end of the Biden administration that has left the prison population smaller than at any time in its more than 20-year history.

None of the released men had been charged with crimes during their two decades of detention. Now, all but six of the remaining prisoners have been charged with or convicted of war crimes.

There were 40 detainees when President Biden took office and resurrected an Obama administration effort to close the prison.

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