The first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp was constructed in England in 1779. It marked the inception of facilities ...

After the war, Mrs Bell said her father returned to Lancashire to "get on with his life, his job in the shoe industry and ...

The remains of a soldier from upstate New York who died in World War II have been identified more than 80 years after his ...

Learn the story of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, who became the highest-ranking American POW during WWII, in Jonathan Horn's newest book, "The Fate of the Generals." ...

A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of ...

A Ukrainian prisoner of war who was held captive in Russian jail for 1,000 days has revealed how he survived the constant hunger and endless beatings. Journalist Oleksandr Gudilin was captured ...

Eric Reeves, 104, joined the Territorial Army at 16 and became a Lance Corporal with the Queen's Royal Regiment by the age of 20 but was captured by German forces in 1940 and spent five years in a ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to nearly 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new ...

Hamas has proposed releasing all Israeli hostages in exchange for a comprehensive prisoner swap, the end of the Gaza war, and the withdrawal of Israeli forces. A senior Hamas official blamed ...

Dmytro Lubinets wrote on X on Thursday that the four prisoners of war had no weapons as they walked out of a destroyed building with “their hands raised”. “They were shot dead on the spot.

Starvation was likely the leading cause of death for a Palestinian teenager who died in an Israeli prison, according to an ...

When she heard her front door open almost two years ago, Kostiantyn Zinovkin’s mother thought her son had returned home ...