Five Ukrainians were released from Belarus in a U.S.-brokered prisoner swap, with President Zelenskiy expressing gratitude to ...

Russia and the U.S. have discussed the possibility of conducting another prisoner exchange, Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev told Axios in an interview. A U.S. official confirmed that and said ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko released 123 prisoners, including Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski, after talks with a U.S. envoy. In exchange, the U.S. agreed to lift potash sanctions. This ...

There were tears and cheers on both sides of the Gaza-Israel border yesterday as 20 living Israeli hostages and almost 2,000 Palestinian detainees were released in a prisoner swap. The trade, phase ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator defended prisoner swaps that free Americans wrongfully detained by foreign countries in exchange for the release of convicted criminals, ...

Earlier this year, Reuters reported that U.S. officials gave the Russians a list of nine Americans they wanted returned. Included in that list was David Barnes, a native Alabamian who was sentenced to ...

The United States and Russia completed a 24-person prisoner swap on Thursday, the largest in post-Soviet history, with Moscow releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and fellow ...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's foreign minister says Iran and France are close to agreeing to an exchange of prisoners, including the release of an Iranian woman arrested in France over her online posts ...

Russia and the United States have discussed the possibility of conducting another prisoner exchange, Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev told Axios in an ...

SANAA/ADEN, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Yemen's warring parties exchanged hundreds more prisoners on Friday on the second and final day of an operation to fly about 1,000 men home and help build momentum for a ...