US transfers 11 Guantanamo detainees to Oman after more than two decades without charge

The U.S. has transferred 11 Yemeni men to Oman after holding them for more than two decades without charge at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Pentagon announced the transfers Monday. The transfers were the latest and biggest push by the Biden administration in its final weeks to clear Guantanamo of the last remaining detainees never charged with a crime. The number of men detained at Guantanamo is now 15. That’s the fewest since 2002, when President George W. Bush’s administration turned Guantanamo into a detention site for the mostly Muslim men taken into custody around the world in what the U.S. called its “war on terror.”