The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas vows to release more Palestinian inmates from Israeli jails by forcing Israel to make further swap deals.

A Yemeni official says the Houthi Ansarullah movement and the former Saudi-allied government are set to swap more than 1,000 prisoners under a UN-brokered peace deal struck in Switzerland last month.

The warring sides in Yemen have reached an agreement to swap more than 1,000 prisoners.

The Taliban militant group accuses the Afghan government of rearresting the released militants, Kabul denies.

An Iranian doctor who had been imprisoned in the US for 16 months has arrived back home after being released.

A senior Iranian security official dismisses US claims that a prisoner swap with Tehran was the result of successful talks.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has confirmed media reports that the United States has released an Iranian physician after spending over a year in jail, while calling on Washington to release all other Iranian citizens taken “hostage”.

Afghanistan’s Abdullah says Kabul is ready to begin intra-Afghan peace talks with the Taliban.

The Afghan government releases hundreds of Taliban prisoners as part of a prisoner swap deal between the US and the militants.

Palestine’s Hamas says the Israelis held in Gaza since Tel Aviv’s 2014 war on the coastal strip will not be released until a “real” agreement is reached on exchanging prisoners.