Two detainees at the Guantanamo war-on-terror jail were recently transferred to Algeria, the US Department of Defense said Tuesday, adding that about 260 people are still being held at the facility.
The department declined to identify the two prisoners or provide other details, but said they were transferred to Algeria in July.
"These detainees were determined to be eligible for transfer following a comprehensive series of review processes," the department said in a statement.
"The transfer is a demonstration of the United States' desire not to hold detainees any longer than necessary."
Some 260 detainees remain at the center in a US enclave in Cuba, with 65 awaiting repatriation, according to the Pentagon.
More than 500 have been freed or transferred to other countries from Guantanamo since 2002, the Pentagon said.
"We are making a concerted effort to reduce the population at Guantanamo," Pentagon spokesman Jeffrey Gordon said.
The US established the detention facility in January 2002 for terror suspects and supporters of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban of Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Many of the detainees have been held for years without trial; only 21 of those remaining have been charged with war crimes.