Melanie Puorto-Conte of Niskayuna has been selected to receive the 60th Four Chaplains Remembrance and Brotherhood Award.

Hundreds gathered in Latham for an emotional farewell ceremony honoring 111 Army National Guard soldiers set to deploy to ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned about a “very big bounty” on top Taliban leaders if they are holding more American hostages than was reported.

Of the 780 people ever detained at Guantánamo, 540 were released during the presidency of George W. Bush, who established the ...

The new administration does not yet have a confirmed defense secretary, attorney general or solicitor general in place.

In one of the many starry boasts made at his inauguration, the 47th (also 45th) president of the United States promised to ...

The Taliban government said Tuesday it had released two American citizens from prison in return for an Afghan fighter held in ...

The family of Ryan Corbett, one of the Americans in the exchange, said their hearts were filled with overwhelming gratitude ...

Indonesia is looking into ways to repatriate an al Qaeda-linked Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of involvement in some of the ...

Indonesia is considering repatriating Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali, a Guantanamo detainee linked to deadly attacks in Bali and Jakarta. A key figure in Jemaah Islamiyah's network, he awaits ...

I was held in Guantanamo detention centre for 14 years without ever being charged with a crime. I was sent there when I was 19. I didn’t know why I was being held, what I had done to be imprisoned, or ...