All 10 Americans released by Venezuela on Friday are back on U.S. soil. It comes as new information surfaces about the high-stakes prisoner swap that freed them, including the critical role from El Salvador.

Tens of thousands of Israelis protested Saturday in central Tel Aviv to demand a deal that would secure the release of all hostages in the Gaza Strip, according to media reports.

Over 260 people were released from prisons in El Salvador and Venezuela. Now they face the challenge of coming home.

Ryan Routh, the accused would-be assassin of President Donald Trump, has asking why the death penalty isn’t on the table and proposed that he be included in a prisoner swap with U.S. adversaries Iran,

Andry Hernández-Romero, a gay makeup artist who sought asylum in the U.S. due to persecution in Venezuela but was deported to a prison in El Salvador, has been released as part of a prisoner swap — but he's being sent back to Venezuela instead of the U.S.

Prisoner swaps occur between two countries, usually involved in a conflict of some sort, when they find it mutually beneficial to release political prisoners, prisoners of war, people charged with espionage,