The family of Donnie MacRae, who died aged 33 in a prisoner-of-war camp hospital, want his remains reunited with his body.

Former POWs detail cruel methods, including beatings and electric shocks from a field telephone known as ‘a call to Putin.’ ...

Honestly, my feelings are indescribable,” Boshara Amro, 21, told NBC News after her sister Jeneen was released.

ISLAMABAD -- A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a ...

Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher were freed from Gaza. Thirty more hostages are set to be released in exchange ...

Palestinians celebrated on the streets of Gaza as guns fell silent. Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv’s “Hostages Square” to ...

Dozens of Palestinian prisoners have been freed by Israel after three hostages left Hamas captivity in an exchange that took place after 15 months of collective grief and anxiety.

World War II veteran Martin Copenhafer, who survived D-Day in 1944, is starting over at age 104 after his Malibu home was recently lost in the Pacific Palisades fire.

President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition of a quiet hero whose name should echo in American history. Endo’s courage ...

The complexities of war were not over, however ... did an excellent job covering in detail the history of the Nazi occupation of France and the end of WW2 in France. Our walk about town was great but ...

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