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“I’m hoping he’ll be used as a bargaining chip, but my son told me they torture their prisoners and I’m so frightened he’ll be tortured,” the soldier's father said.

Syrian rebels have freed prisoners — including toddlers — from a jam-packed notorious prison dubbed the “human slaughterhouse,” where the Assad regime allegedly used an “iron press’’ to pulverize bodies.

Syrian producer Mohammad al-Shebli was helping to translate the anguished messages scrawled on cell walls by prisoners of the brutal Assad regime made a heart-wrenching discovery.

Almost half of executions took place in last quarter, with 12 prisoners hanged on New Year's Day.

Twenty-three years after the 9/11 attacks on NYC, new US intelligence documents reveal 234 “rehabbed” former Gitmo detainees have returned to terrorism and killing Americans — an alarming 32% recidivism rate. Most of them have not been...

If the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal goes according to the current draft, then fighting will stop in Gaza for 42 days, and dozens of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners will be freed.

“We do whatever we can in order for peace to prevail in the region. We will spare no effort in order for the prisoners to be released,” Pezeshkian said when asked about the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Hamas.

Cuban authorities would release some of them before Biden’s administration ends on Jan. 20, officials said.

President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 federal inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses — as roughly the same number of marijuana prisoners await word on whether he will honor his campaign pledge to free them. The White...

Trump, 78, said he issued "approximately 1,500 pardons" at the White House in between inaugural festivities on Monday.

Hamas is set to free four more female Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners Saturday in the second release since the warring sides reached a long-awaited cease-fire deal last week.

A trio of Israeli hostages have been released in exchange for 90 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel in the first phase of the tri-stage deal that if fully implemented, would leave Hamas weakened but still have power in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the “horrific” scenes during the chaotic hostage handover in Gaza — as the Jewish state then delayed the release of more than 100 Palestinian prisoners that were scheduled to be swapped in...

The prisoners released were all men, ranging in age from 15 to 69, with nearly two dozen serving life sentences for more egregious crimes transferred to Egypt before further deportation.

When Ukrainian soldiers captured two North Korean prisoners of war last month, it provided the first undeniable proof of Pyongyang’s direct involvement in the war against Ukraine.

Russia built a complex torture system to deal with Ukrainian prisoners of war that saw Kyiv's soldiers taking relentless electrical shocks to their genitals, suffer brutal beating, and foregoing timely medical treatment — all to instill cruel...

The new prison cuts shocked state lawmakers, some of whom are fielding calls from frightened and furious corrections officers and families of prisoners.

Israel has delayed the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners citing the “humiliating” circumstances of previous handovers with Hamas.

Gov. Kathy Hochul won’t address striking corrections officers’ key gripe: the state's 2021 HALT Act, which restricts segregation of dangerous prisoners.

The Post last week went to the largest of Ukraine's five camps for Russian POWs hundreds of miles from the front lines to speak with prisoners about their treatment at the facility, their views on the bloody conflict and how they ended up fighting in...