Six Guantanamo detainees have been transferred to Uruguay from the US military base in Cuba.
Four men of the men transferred are Syrians, while the others are Palestinian and Tunisian.
They were flown to South America on a US military plane.
It was the largest single group to leave the detention camp since 2009.
Among the inmates transferred out was Syrian prisoner Jihad Diyab.
He had staged a hunger strike and requested a US court to order prison officials to stop force-feeding him.
The move is the latest step in a slow-moving effort by the Obama administration to close the facility.
There are more than 130 detainees remaining at the facility.
US President Barack Obama took office nearly six years ago promising to shut the prison, citing its damage to America's image around the world.
