Prisoner

Russian dissidents Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Kara-Murza, and Andrei Pivovarov give a press conference in Bonn, Germany, on the release of Russian political detainees at 12:30 p.m. ET on Aug. 2.

President Joe Biden announced the return of Americans Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in a 24-person prisoner swap ...

American POW camps were known for the humane and respectful treatment of their prisoners.

MOSCOW—A top Russian diplomat said Moscow and Washington were still engaged in sensitive negotiations over a prisoner exchange, ...

MIAMI—A defense contractor at the center of one of the biggest bribery scandals in U.S. military history is ...

CARACAS/WASHINGTON—Some of the Americans who were freed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in a U.S. prisoner swap ...

'We will resume fighting after the ceasefire,' Israeli foreign minister

MINNEAPOLIS—A Minnesota county agreed to pay a $12.2 million settlement to a man who was jailed on suspicion ...

Residents of a suburban Philadelphia community locked themselves in their houses and at least one school district canceled ...

WEST CHESTER, Pa.—A murderer made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, ...

WEST CHESTER, Pa.—A recently convicted murderer who's been on the run for days after escaping a suburban Philadelphia ...

MOSCOW—The Kremlin on Tuesday held the door open for contacts with the United States regarding a possible prisoner ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iran’s top diplomat claimed Sunday that a prisoner swap was near with the United Stats, ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iran said Thursday it executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that further prisoner swaps between the United States and Russia were ...

LONDON—The United States is still talking to Russia about a deal to free jailed Americans Brittney Griner and ...

LONDON—Russia said on Thursday that negotiations with the United States on exchanging prisoners are ongoing but there is ...

KYIV—Ukraine on Wednesday carried out its biggest exchange of prisoners of war since Russia invaded, securing the release ...

Federal and state officials are searching for four inmates who escaped from a federal prison in Virginia this ...

PHOENIX—An Arizona prisoner is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in less than three weeks for killing ...

The ISIS-K terrorist who carried out a suicide bomb attack in August outside of the airport in Kabul, ...

CHAPELLE-SUR-ERDRE, France—A radicalized French ex-prisoner on a watch list of potential terrorist threats stabbed a policewoman inside her ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The United States on May 2 immediately denied a report by Iranian state-run television that ...

Dustin Lee Honken, who was convicted for the killing of five people, including a family of four that ...

California will release up to 8,000 inmates early from state prisons to slow the spread of COVID-19 inside ...

The UK government is introducing emergency legislation to prevent convicted terrorists from being automatically released from prison before the ...

Two professors who were kidnapped in 2016 were released by the Taliban terrorist group on Nov. 18 after ...