Sami al-Hajj: Remembering Guantanamo. Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Hajj reflects on how the years he spent as a prisoner in the US detention camp changed his life.

SAMI AL-HAJJ: When I was in Guantánamo, I ask myself—it is a bad situation, but I ask myself, maybe it is a good chance for me to be a journalist inside Guantánamo, ...

Hamas hailed al-Hajj as a “martyr” on Friday. The Israeli military described him as a commander who was responsible for attacks on Israel from Lebanon.

Al-Hajj's home, which housed the archives of 16 years of his photographic work, was destroyed two days after he was wounded. On March 18, the Israelis stormed Al-Shifa Hospital, ...