Hamas-led militants took 251 hostages during their Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza. More than 70 hostages ...

Three men held hostage in the Gaza Strip for more than 16 months were freed Saturday, bringing to 21 the number of captives ...

Russia built a sickening torture system to persecute Ukrainian prisoners of war — where captives were given relentless electrical shocks to their genitals and were beaten so savagely that police ...

In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, the head of St. Petersburg’s prisons delivered a direct message to an elite unit of guards tasked with overseeing the influx of prisoners from the war ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israel on Saturday is releasing 183 Palestinian prisoners in the latest exchange for Israeli ...

Smiling, standing close and appearing at ease, the men in the 1940s black and white photo look like a typical work crew taking a break from harvesting pears in Napa’s Carneros region. Yet these ...

New reporting from The Wall Street Journal details how Igor Potapenko, the head of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, ordered guards to subject ...

The majority of Palestinian prisoners are being released with health problems, the Palestinian Prisoners Society, a non-governmental organization in the West Bank, said in a statement Saturday.

Israel is releasing 183 Palestinian prisoners in the latest exchange for ... including Zubeidi, used spoons to tunnel out one of Israel’s most secure prisons. They remained at large for days ...

Aaron Boxerman Hamas released three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for more than 180 Palestinian prisoners in a heavily staged handover that sparked outrage in Israel. The three men ...

Israel and Hamas have completed the fifth exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners as agreed under stage one of the ceasefire process. The three Israelis - Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami ...