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 ...

Only the American flag and other state and military-related banners will be allowed to be displayed under the new department ...

Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it ...

ŻAGAŃ, Poland – On Jan. 27, 1945, ten thousand Allied POWs stepped off from Stalag Luft 3 in Żagań as the Nazi regime began forcibly evacuating its POW camps in the face of the advancing ...

The military’s 2021 takeover prompted widespread public protests, whose violent suppression by security forces triggered an ...

No, they were not "hostages." They each had a normal American trial with the presentation of evidence and witnesses ...

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 150 prisoners of war each, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Wednesday. The freed Russian military personnel were transferred to Belarus, where they are ...

For all incidents, the mission obtained video and photo material showing executions or dead bodies. The spike in executions is part of a pattern of abuse against Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW). The ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate holidays still on the books for Florida after well over a century, despite numerous attempts to remove them. The holidays were adopted by ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. It is the fifth swap of hostages for prisoners since the ceasefire began on Jan. 19. Eighteen hostages and ...

Petersburg’s prisons delivered a direct message to an elite unit of guards tasked with overseeing the influx of prisoners from the war: “Be cruel, don’t pity them.” Maj. Gen. Igor ...