PENTAGON — The U.S. Defense Department has announced conditions under which it will resume sending suspected terrorists caught on the battlefield to its detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the first time in more than a decade. Pentagon officials sent the updated guidance to the White House Wednesday, backing President Donald Trump’s decision to reverse […]
With relations between Washington and Moscow deteriorating, Russian news agencies are quoting a top defense official as saying the possibility of reopening Russian military facilities in Cuba and Vietnam is under consideration. Asked Friday by lawmakers in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, if the Russian military might return to countries like […]
Hurricane Matthew is pounding the Bahamas as it propels toward Florida, forcing residents and emergency workers there and in other southeastern U.S. states to hastily prepare for its arrival on Thursday. At least 108 people in Haiti were killed after Hurricane Matthew slammed Tuesday into the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican […]
On his second day in Cuba, throngs of Cubans lined the rainy streets of Havana as President Obama’s motorcade traveled past, shouting his name, throwing kisses, cheering and chanting “USA! USA!” This the first time in 90 years that a sitting American president has visited the island country. Obama met with Raul Castro on Monday to have discussions […]