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 ...

US president Donald Trump has said the White House would “take a pass” on brokering a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine ...

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

Putting prisoners of war in front of reporters and news cameras is almost certainly a violation of international humanitarian ...

A Russian court handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years to Darya Kozyreva, a young activist who used 19th-century ...

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 ...

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

U.S. Army Maj. James J. O'Donovan of Cohoes, New York, was interred Tuesday at the national cemetery, 83 years after his ...

U.S. Army Pvt. Harland J. Hennessey of Boonville was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II.

"If you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, there will be an armed guard following you," said Wang, who described ...

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