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Two decades after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the arrival of the first terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay on January 11, 2002, many Americans may not recall details of the systematic abuses carried out by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and US military against hundreds if not thousands of Muslims detained as part of what President George W. Bush swiftly declared a global “War on Terror.” Yet for many people in countries outside the United States, memories of the US government’s brutal treatment of detained Muslims remain potent. And some abuses continue,...

Sometimes you just have to scratch your head with this administration. While the Biden administration’s own director of national intelligence has assessed that “ISIS, al-Qa’ida, and Iran and its militant allies continue to plot terrorist attacks against U.S. persons and interests,” the administration is calling for the terrorist-detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to be closed.

Sometimes you just have to scratch your head with this administration.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee recently held a hearing on closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Cully Stimson, deputy director of Heritage’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, testified at the Dec. 7 hearing.Stimson formerly served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs under the George W. Bush administration and coordinated the Pentagon’s global detention policy and operations, including at Guantanamo Bay.

Tigrayan forces summarily executed dozens of civilians in two towns they controlled in Ethiopia‘s northern Amhara region between August 31 and