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Six Yemenis held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Oman for resettlement, the Pentagon said on 12 June, the latest step in President Barack Obama’s slow push to close the facility. The release came a week after Defense Secretary Ash …

THE LEVANT – A Kuwaiti, who had been held for 13 years at the controversial US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, arrived home Thursday as Washington steps up releases, his father said. Fawzi al-Odah had been one of just two Kuwaitis still detained in the holding centre for US …