Russia and Ukraine each said on Wednesday that 150 of their captured soldiers had been returned in the latest prisoner-of-war exchange between the two warring countries. The two sides regularly ...

Hamas freed six hostages on Saturday in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners as part of the fragile ceasefire agreement with Israel. The first two men released were identified as Tal ...

Rashevskaya soon found out that her husband, a native of Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhya region, was alive and being held captive in Chechnya along with several other Ukrainian prisoners of war.

A Financial Times investigative documentary has found evidence that Russian executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war are not isolated incidents but likely part of a broader pattern that points to ...

Gen. Edward P. King, Jr. — a U.S. Army commander who surrendered to the Japanese Army on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines in May 1942 and subsequently spent over three years as a prisoner of ...

Ukraine carried out a prisoner swap with Russia on Wednesday that saw 150 of its fighters returning home, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on his Telegram page. Footage posted by Zelenskyy ...

United Nations monitors reported an “alarming rise” in Russian executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war in recent months, as Kyiv said its latest long-range drone strikes had hit two big fuel ...

Israel Prison Service was instructed by the political echelon to halt the release of Palestinian prisoners following the chaotic release of the seven hostages in the Gaza Strip. A bus carries ...

Pope Francis received heartfelt letters from inmates at Milan’s San Vittore prison after his hospitalization forced the cancellation of a planned meeting where the prisoners were to perform in a ...

The handover of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners has been postponed "until the release of the next hostages is secured without humiliating ceremonies", Israel has said. The 620 Palestinians ...