The U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is one of the most unusual American military installations in the world. Surrounded on all sides by the communist nation, the base is home to nearly ...

The prominence of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay rose briefly during the Haitian refugee and Cuban migrant crises of the early 1990s. At one point in late 1994, the migrant population of the naval ...

Read CNN’s Guantánamo Bay Naval Station Fast Facts and learn more about its detention facility, nicknamed “Gitmo.” ...

It refers, of course, to a bay in Cuba, but also to the U.S. naval base that’s been situated off that bay since the signing of the Cuban-American Treaty in 1903, following the Spanish-American War.

Dozens of foreigners from six different continents are being held at Guantanamo Bay, DHS officials have confirmed.

Yesterday, White House Homeland Security Chief John Brennan indicated the Obama administration might not meet President Obama’s January 22, 2010, deadline to close the detention center at Guantánamo ...

Building on the naval station begins that same year. 1934 – Cuba and the United States sign a perpetual lease that rents the 45 square miles of Cuba to the United States for $4,085 a year. 1991 ...

Since then, the Navy says the naval station is completely self-sufficient with its own sources for water and power. Guantanamo Bay been under criticism for years The base has been the center of ...

1903 - The new Republic of Cuba leases 45 square miles of land in Guantánamo Bay to the United States for construction of a naval station. Building on the naval station begins that same year.