The first U.S. military flight carrying detained migrants to Guantánamo Bay departed on Tuesday. Here's what to know about the base and its history.

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA (May 12, 2025)–Waterway Navigation is the U. S Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) earliest Civil Works mission. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, called upon the ...

The number of troops deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under President Donald Trump's order to turn the Navy base into a detention camp for migrants arrested in the U.S. has nearly tripled -- to ...

WASHINGTON — More than 200 additional troops have been deployed to Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to help support the detention of migrants at the facility, a Defense Department official ...

1 / 7 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Feb. 25, 2025. Joint Task Force Southern Guard is supporting illegal aliens ...

As of Monday, out of the 178 people sent to Guantanamo Bay, 28% -- or 51 migrants sent to the base since Feb. 9 -- were considered "low threat" and were being kept in the Migrant Operations Center ...

Service members arrived over the weekend at Guantanamo Bay, where they'll work to prepare the Navy base in southeast Cuba for ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday, his first trip to the naval installation since being confirmed to his post in January. Hegseth, who served as a U.S ...

The Trump administration has moved more than 30 people described as Venezuelan gang members to the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, as U.S. forces and homeland security staff prepare a tent city ...

Starting Feb. 4, flights from a US Army base in West Texas began arriving almost daily at Guantanamo, which Trump has said he wants to expand to hold as many as 30,000 people — up significantly ...

Earlier this week, the Army announced that 111 military police soldiers from the New York National Guard deployed to Guantanamo Bay on Jan. 25 as part of regular rotations to “secure” the ...