We had to walk naked in front of the men and everyone else, bent over, through freezing cold water,” one victim said.

In 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia ordered that all prisoners of the 30 Years War be released “without payment of ransom and without any exception.” Exchanging prisoners was common by the time ...

Russian prison authorities approved the use of brutality and torture against Ukrainian prisoners of war weeks after the ...

Seeing the face of Ukrainian soldier Maksym Kolesnykov light up with joy over an apple upon his release from Russian captivity last February was enough to bring anyone to tears. During nearly a year ...

Hamas-led militants released three gaunt, frail-looking Israeli hostages and Israel freed nearly 200 Palestinian prisoners ...

The Houthis in Yemen have unilaterally released 153 prisoners of war to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the non-governmental organisation and the rebel group confirmed.

Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels, who are poised to return to the US terrorism blacklist, released more than 150 prisoners of war in tearful scenes on Saturday. Those freed, who included elderly ...

“During our six months of detention, we were completely cut off from the world, we got no information on the war in Gaza”, Mohammed, a freed prisoner who declined to share his last ...

Sanaa (AFP) – Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels, who are poised to return to the US terrorism blacklist, released more than 150 prisoners of war in tearful scenes on Saturday. Those freed ...

The Israeli military says its prosecutor has filed indictments against five reservists who are accused of severely abusing a ...