Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

What does it take to be labeled a war criminal? For Henry Wirz, commanding one of the worst POW camps in history was enough.

Scattered across Rojava - the Kurdish-led region in Syria that spearheaded the global fight against the Islamic State - there are prisons holding thousands upon thousands of captured ISIS fighters ...

Ancient Rome threw prisoners into the Colosseum to ... also became synonymous with misery. In the Civil War, the most notorious camp was near Andersonville, Ga., where an estimated 30 percent ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

IT WAS the image of British ISIS fighter Jihadi John wielding a knife and executing terrified hostages as they kneeled before him that changed Macer Gifford’s life forever. Watching the horror ...

The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail for foreign terror suspects, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh ...

Migrant advocates on Thursday were speaking out against plans by President Donald Trump to revamp Guantánamo Bay to detain ...

The Palestinian General Authority for Civil ... Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club of the death of Muhammad Yassin Khalil Jaber, 22, from the Deheishe refugee ...

Militants in the Gaza Strip released eight hostages on Thursday, handing them over to the Red Cross amid chaotic crowds as part of a swap that is set to see 110 Palestinians released from Israeli ...

There is no Jabalia camp," said Hisham El-Err ... By late on Tuesday, Gaza's Hamas authorities said most of the 650,000 ...