The first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp was constructed in England in 1779. It marked the inception of facilities ...

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS ...

During World War II, the U.S. captured hundreds of thousands of German Soldiers. What to do with them all? House them in the United States, of course. In this piece for Backstory, Larry Potash looks ...

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The eight hunger strikers locked up in the UK need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone.

The prisoners of war come from all corners of the world: Kenya, Nepal, Tajikistan, to name a few. Speaking different languages and coming from diverse cultures, they have one thing in common – they ...

Israel’s forced removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from refugee camps in the occupied West Bank earlier this year amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Retired Col. Robert Stirm, featured in the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Burst of Joy,” a symbol of the Vietnam War’s ...

“Prisoner 951” is a “harrowing watch”, said Carol Midgley in The Times. The four-part series dramatises the nightmarish six years Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe endured as a political prisoner in Iranian ...