The United States has transferred a prisoner held in the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to his home country of Morocco, making him the first detainee under the Biden administration to be repatriated from the American naval base in Cuba. 

On Monday the Department of Defense announced the transfer of Abdul Latif Nasir, 56, who was recommended for release under the Obama administration. In his Guantanamo profile, the US alleges that Nasir fought for several years with the Taliban on the front lines in Kabul and Bagram, Afghanistan and then at Tora Bora. He has been held without charge at the notorious US prison since 2002.

In 2016, the Periodic Review Board recommended that Nasir be repatriated to Morocco. The interagency government panel concluded his detention was no longer necessary “to protect against a continuing significant threat to the national security of the United States.”

His representative told the review board in 2016 that Nasir deeply regretted his actions and that has a "strong desire to put this unfortunate period of his life behind him and move on.”