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

Following the polite tradition of “ladies first,” l ast week’s Time Machine was about Iowa poet Ethel Penningroth. In ...

Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on the state.

At the same time, Prokopenko hailed the most recent POW swap, welcoming the return of Ukrainian soldiers. “As a Ukrainian officer, I rejoice at the release of every Ukrainian from captivity,” he said.

Bulgaria stands to receive about €500 million (£415 million) from its military support to Ukraine over the past three years.

Nine prisoners wielding shanks and hand-made knives ... is home to 10 million people and is one of the poorest former Soviet republics. A criminal investigation into the incident has been launched ...

A prison riot in Tajikistan resulted in the deaths of five Islamic State-linked prisoners after they attacked guards with knives ...

Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less to force a Japanese defeat than to warn the Soviet Union to be amenable to American wishes in the construction of the ...

Ukrainian POWs have reported that their torturers and those who ill-treated them often used dehumanising language, referring to them as 'Nazis,' 'fascists,' or similar terms," the organisation ...

Until we return, here’s a quick recap of what’s been happening: Today saw the release of Israeli hostages Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy in exchange for 183 Palestinian prisoners.