The transfer of suspected terrorists from the facility is the largest single operation under President BARACK OBAMA administration.
The BBC quoted the US Pentagon saying that the transferred detainees include twelve Yemeni nationals and three Afghans.
With the development; the total number of prisoners at the US detention facility in Cuba is now down to sixty-one.
The Guantanamo Bay jail was opened by former US President GEORGE W BUSH in January, 2002 to accommodate foreign terror suspects after the September-Eleven attacks in 2001.
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