So, amid talk that Iran and Italy were negotiating a prisoner swap that involved the United States, he says, he decided to try to get a message to someone who might be in a position to help.

Many Iranian citizens and opponents of the establishment criticised the event on social media, calling it another prisoner exchange between Iran and western countries and referring to Sala’s ...

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni has emerged as the US president’s favourite EU interlocutor, with hopes growing she could talk him out ...

So, amid talk that Iran and Italy were negotiating a prisoner swap that involved the United States, he says, he decided to try to get a message to someone who might be in a position to help.

Abu Obeida, Hamas spokesperson, said that Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel and Ofer Kalderon will be freed on Saturday.

Benjamin Netanyahu decried the “unimaginable cruelty” of Hamas after a mob abused and threatened an Israeli hostage during her release on Thursday. Arbel Yehud, 29, appeared pale and terrified ...

Iran’s latest prisoner swap involves Cecilia Sala, 29, who was arrested on Dec.19 during a reporting trip in Iran. Her detention came three days after Mohammad Abedini was arrested in Italy at ...

to the Red Cross as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, January 19, 2025. (photo credit: REUTERS/DAWOUD ABU ALKAS) Hamas has recruited ...

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Iran has used the detention of foreign and ... tourists — are effectively hostages whom Tehran leverages with other countries to swap prisoners and free frozen funds. Ms. Sala feared from ...