An curved arrow pointing right. The US and Iran swapped prisoners after two years of high-stakes negotiations. The deal included the US unfreezing $6 billion in Iranian oil funds and dismissing ...

In January, an Iranian engineer whom Italy had detained on an American extradition request was freed shortly after Iran released an Italian journalist from prison. And as part of a prisoner swap ...

STOCKHOLM - A Swede freed in a prisoner swap with Iran, 33-year-old EU diplomat Johan Floderus, said in his first words since his release that he was "in seventh heaven", in a video published Sunday.

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Iran and Sweden carried out a prisoner swap Saturday that saw Tehran release a European Union diplomat and another man in exchange for an Iranian convicted in Stockholm of committing war crimes ...

On August 10, the New York Times reported that the US and Iran had reached an agreement on a prisoner swap. On the same day, the White House confirmed the agreement, but urged waiting for the ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service, the country’s main security and counterespionage agency, said that dual Russian-German citizen Arthur Petrov was released as part of a swap. Petrov was arrested in ...