Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Eli Lake Bloomberg View President Obama’s main arguments for closing Guantanamo Bay ...

President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office - and perhaps his first day - to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two ...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to "once and for all" close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and transfer the most detainees to a facility in the U.S., submitting a ...

MIAMI — President Barack Obama says he's serious about closing the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That was the pledge he repeated Monday night at a congressional fundraiser in Miami.

The White House reaffirmed President Obama’s intention to shutter the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a long and elusive promise the president is trying to push anew. “It is still ...

The Obama administration is running out of time and options to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, so officials are scrambling to release as many prisoners as possible and considering ...

European affairs analyst William Drozdiak says Barack Obama’s administration will lead Washington to demand from Europe more troops for Afghanistan, a coordinated economic stimulus package, and help ...