Like the CSRT, the Board did not have a mandate to review whether detainees qualified for POW status under the Geneva Conventions.

Guerrillas, for example, usually do not wear a uniform or carry arms openly, but captured guerrillas are often granted POW status.

An unlawful combatant is someone who commits belligerent acts but does not qualify for POW status under GCIII Articles 4 and 5.

North Korea did not recognize the POW status of its South Korean captives, and viewed them as "liberated fighters."

The 15,000 remaining Home Army soldiers were granted POW status (prior to the agreement, captured rebels were shot), and the remaining civilian population of 180,000 expelled.

He had spoken the words warmly, as he had the gratuitous reference to Joel's POW status.

However, some classes of combatants may not be accorded POW status, though that definition has broadened to cover more classes of combatants over time.

Other captives, including Saddam Hussein, have been accorded POW status.

According to the Geneva Conventions, only captives who have been stripped of POW status, by a competent tribunal, can face charges for any actions they committed on the battlefield.

None of the prisoners received POW status.