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List of Syrian detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7663265 ↗
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The United States Department of Defense was holding a total of eleven

Syrian detainees in Guantanamo.

A total of 778 suspects have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002,

The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where List, Syrian and detainees can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of Syrian detainees at Guantanamo Bay” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.