ISTANBUL, June 2 — Russian and Ukrainian officials are due to sit down on Monday in Istanbul for their second round of direct peace talks since 2022, with no sign they are any closer to an agreement, one day after Kyiv struck some of Moscow's nuclear-capable bombers.

CHERNIHIV REGION, May 23 — Russia and Ukraine each released 390 prisoners on Friday and said they would free more in the coming days, in what is expected to be the biggest prisoner swap of the war so far.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH, Feb 15 — Hamas released Israeli hostages Iair Horn, Sagui Dekel Chen and Sasha (Alexander) Troufanov in Gaza today, and Israel freed some 369 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in exchange, after mediators helped avert a collapse of the fragile ceasefire.

GAZA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Jan 20 — Palestine released three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, the first day of a ceasefire suspending a 15-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and inflamed the Middle East.

ISTANBUL (Turkiye), Nov 22 —  The Israeli government and Hamas agreed to a prisoner exchange deal early Wednesday.

DUBAI, Sept 22 — Iran is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a virtual address to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Monday, amid heightened tension between the longtime foes.