The Confederate Civil War prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was an utter nightmare for the many soldiers held within. It was dangerously overcrowded, rife with disease, and food and medical ...

Amid the torture and inhumanity of Saydnaya, stories of survival and unbroken spirit offer powerful testimony to the human ...

Iran-backed rebels say they released 'humanitarian' prisoners, aiming 'to build trust and establish a new phase' in peace ...

Military police fired into the air while pursuing the escapees and recaptured 410 of them, Kassara said. Efforts are ongoing ...

Laye Sekou Camara admitted only that he’d lied on immigration forms more than a decade ago when he sought to enter the United States after a second civil war in Liberia.

After the Civil War, the South’s economy ... and to support new expenses such as universal public education. The prison problem was especially challenging, as most prisons had been destroyed ...

History Detective host Eduardo Pagán consults a Clara Barton biographer, a civil war prison historian, and a Pennsylvania genealogist to determine whether an 1866 letter about the death of a ...

The developments mark the biggest challenge to President Bashar al-Assad’s rule since Syria’s civil war began in 2011. "We celebrate with the Syrian people the news of freeing our prisoners ...

Twenty-seven members of Gaza’s Civil Defense Service are still held by the Israeli army, the agency said on Monday. “At least ...