A British man who fought for Ukraine against the Russian army has been sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security prison ...

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

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

A UK pro-Palestine activist was hospitalised again as eight detainees continue a major hunger strike demanding bail and basic ...

The U.K.'s security services protected a top spy within the Irish Republican Army even when he was wanted for murder, a ...

John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. For many veterans, ...

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 ...

November 15, 1943 - In November, 1943 construction was completed on 70 buildings and 7 miles of roads at a Prisoner of War internment camp near Holdrege. The camp was initiated by the Holdrege ...

An Ipswich, Massachusetts, man is set to tell his father's World War II story on Veterans Day to the rest of the country.The story centers on Jim Kurtz’s father, Robert Kurtz, who came home from war ...

Decades after surviving more than 2,600 days as a prisoner of war, Vietnam veteran Harlan Chapman has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. During the war, he was a Marine ...

A Ukrainian court has found a Russian soldier guilty of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war in a January 2024 incident and sentenced him to life in prison, in the first ruling of its kind. Dmitriy ...