Base would house migrants waiting to be transported to their home countries. Guantanamo could be used to hold up to 30,000 migrants According to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is "a perfect place" where the Trump administration could hold up to 30,000 migrants while they await being deported from the United States to their home countries. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum directing the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare the base to hold what he had earlier...

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would sign an executive order for the Pentagon to prepare Guantanamo Bay to detain 30,000 "criminal illegal aliens." "Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay," Trump said. "Most people don't even know about it." TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TOUTS 969 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTS IN ONE DAY: ‘HERE ARE SOME OF THE WORST’ He said they need 30,000 beds to house the detainees, adding that putting...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States.

Guantanamo Bay inmate Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi has been repatriated to Tunisia, the US Department of Defense says.

He was found eligible for transfer from the detention facility after a "rigorous interagency review process", a press statement said.

A prisoner who has been held at Guantanamo Bay since the day it opened over 20 years ago has been released, the Pentagon said.

Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi’s transfer back to Tunisia was approved more than a decade ago, and he was never charged, but authorities have only just confirmed his repatriation.

The Pentagon on Monday returned to Tunisia a detainee held at the United States' military base at Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, since 2002. 

The Defense Department said Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi, 59, was repatriated to the government of Tunisia after he was "determined transfer-eligible by a rigorous interagency review process established by [a] 2009 Executive Order."

The USS Helena, a fast-attack nuclear submarine, surfaced in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a day after Russian naval forces arrived in Havana to conduct drills with the island nation, a Russian ally.

In a statement posted on X, US Southern Command said, “The fast-attack submarine USS Helena is in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as part of a routine port visit as it transits the U.S. Southern Command geographic area of responsibility while conducting its global maritime security and national defense mission.”

A U.S. Navy fast-attack submarine arrived in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay on Thursday, hard on the heels of a Russian flotilla's arrival in Havana 24 hours earlier.

The USS Helena, one of around two dozen Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered, conventionally armed boats, was making "a routine port visit...while conducting its global maritime security and national defense mission," the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said in a statement on social media.

A group of Russian Navy vessels arrived in Cuba on Wednesday, a show of force by Moscow amid increasing tensions between the U.S. and Russia.

The vessels – the Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov, nuclear-powered submarine Kazan, a rescue tug, and an oil tanker – entered Havana harbor with ceremonial firing from the Gorshkov and an 18th century colonial fort. The vessels are on a five-day official visit to Cuba in a show of ties between Moscow and Havana, according to CNN.

The Biden administration was poised to send about a dozen detainees at Guantánamo Bay to Oman for resettlement last year, but it abruptly halted the secret operation amid questions from Congress about security in the Middle East after Hamas attacked Israel, according to administration officials.

None of the prisoners have ever been charged with crimes, and all of them had been cleared for transfer by national security review panels.