For the first time since 2002, there are fewer than 100 detainees at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay.
The Department of Defense announced Thursday that it had transferred ten prisoners out of the facility and into the custody of the government of Oman.
Each individual was unanimously approved for transfer by the Guantanamo Review Task Force, the Pentagon reported.
While there were only 15 detainee transfers in all of 2015, there have already been 14 releases from Guantanamo this year alone—a sign that President Obama is feverishly trying to whittle down the prison population there in hopes of closing the facility before he leaves office.
During the State of the Union on Tuesday, Obama promised that he “will keep working to shut down the prison at Guantanamo” during his final year in office.
The detainees released to Oman were: Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi, Samir Naji al-Hasan Muqbil, Adham Mohamed Ali Awad, Mukhtar Yahya Naji al-Warafi, Abu Bakr Ibn Muhammad al-Ahdal, Muhammad Salih Husayn al-Shaykh, Muhammad Said Salim Bin Salman, Said Muhammad Salih Hatim, Umar Said Salim al-Dini, and Fahmi Abdallah Ahmad Ubadi al-Tulaqi.
Although each of the detainees are citizens of Yemen, Congress has placed restriction barring any transfers to that country, which is currently mired in conflict.
