Egypt and Bahrain issued a joint statement on Wednesday 3 September, 2025 calling for positive engagement in efforts to stop the war and achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, allowing the exchange of captives ...

Israel has rejected Hamas’s latest ceasefire proposal, which included hostage releases, prisoner swaps, troop withdrawals, ...

As part of the prisoner swap between the U.S. and Venezuela in July, one of the 10 Americans released was a convicted triple ...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled against President Trump's use of an 18th century wartime law to rapidly deport ...

Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages in the Oct. 7 attack. The ensuing war has killed more than 63,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, ...

The remains of a second hostage, whose name had yet to be released for publication, were also retrieved, the statement added.

Israeli prisoners freed in a Hamas swap, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and other anti-Israel activists with extremist, anti-Israel views ...

For German Moyzhes, a little-known political activist and lawyer, the days of uncertainty in his Russian prison cell seemed ...

Russia and Ukraine exchanged 146 prisoners of war from each side on Sunday after mediation by the United Arab Emirates, the ...

A prisoner swap among Germany, Russia, and the United States in August 2024 resulted in the release of the prominent opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, the human rights defender Oleg Orlov, ...

Some of the prisoners had been detained in the Moscow-controlled separatist regions of eastern Ukraine between 2014 and 2022, including three women from the Donetsk and Luhansk areas. One man was said ...

Ukraine and Russia participated in a prisoner swap that released 84 Ukrainians from Russian captivity, with more swaps to come over the next few days.