Exchanges have taken place before, but this deal, involving big numbers on both sides, comes as Trump prepares to take over ...

The following day, New Year’s Day 1945, Hartzell battled Nazi soldiers for control of the Belgian town of Chenogne. In the ...

One of the most heinous war crimes to occur in Europe during World War II was the mass execution of American prisoners of war by the Nazis’ Waffen SS troops of the 1st Panzer Division on Dec. 17 ...

The Pentagon says it's repatriated to Tunisia one of the detainees from the Guantánamo Bay military prison, leaving 26 in the ...

By Dec. 20, Peiper’s command had murdered approximately 350 American prisoners of war and at least 100 unarmed Belgian civilians, across 12 different locations along Peiper’s line of march.

Marge Hop Wong was in the third grade when her brother Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop, who became a waist gunner on a B-17G Flying ...

An American prisoner of war has been rescued in Iraq. The rescue was announced by US Central Command in Qatar. The Pentagon has listed seven Americans as captured by Iraq since the outbreak of the ...

That SS division later committed the Malady massacre where dozens of American prisoners of war (POWs) were killed. “We found other piles of Belgians that they had murdered 30 people in a stack ...

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war in the latest such swap that released hundreds of captives and was ...

A 25-year-old Army soldier, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, has been positively ...