As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

As the war ended in 1945, thousands of Waffen SS men attempted to disappear among ordinary soldiers and civilians. Soviet ...

In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...

Foreign women linked to the Islamic State group in a Syrian camp are hoping for amnesty after a government offensive weakened the Kurdish-led forces guarding them.

Ernest Gueymard spent Dec. 15, 1943, at Prisoner-of-War Sub-Camp No. 7 in Port Allen for a feature story for the State-Times, The Advocate's then-afternoon sister newspaper. "The swish-swish of the ...

When Brian Stonehouse, a British spy posing as an artist, was freed from the concentration camp, he made drawings to document ...

Ukraine reports capture of Russian soldier over war crime claims.

PRAGUE, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Venezuela has freed Czech, Hungarian, Dutch and German citizens imprisoned in the country, their governments said on Friday, part of a flow of prisoner releases following ...

His first feature-length movie, in 1971, was called his country’s “Stonewall moment,” for jump-starting a gay-rights movement. He became a leading voice of it. By Clay Risen Rosa von Praunheim, an ...

An Irish citizen imprisoned in Venezuela has been freed and is now in Prague, following a flow of prisoner releases following ...