The entrance to the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay detention center, at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (Ben Fox/AP)Ten former inmates of the U.S. detention facility in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Oman for “humanitarian reasons,” where they will temporarily resided, the Omani Foreign Ministry announced Monday. The statement by the Omani Foreign Ministry said that the men released from Guantanamo would “temporarily reside” in the country. Prisoners first arrived in Guantanamo in January 2002 and it became a depository for those accused of plotting terrorism against the United States. Read more:With final detainee transfer, Obama’s Guantanamo policy takes its last breathToday’s coverage from Post correspondents around the worldLike Washington Post World on Facebook and stay updated on foreign news

Source: Washington Post January 16, 2017 09:39 UTC