On Friday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: A historic prisoner swap between NATO nations and Russia results in 24 people being released, including three detained American citizens and one permanent ...

American ballerina Ksenia Karelina had a message for President Donald Trump after his administration engineered a deal that saw her released from a Russian prison this week. Trump and the United ...

ISLAMABAD -- The Taliban said they freed on Tuesday an American and an Australian hostage held since 2016 in exchange for three top Taliban figures who were released by the Kabul government and flown ...

Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina was released from Kremlin custody in a prisoner swap with the United States on Thursday morning. Karelina was freed in exchange for German-Russian Arthur ...

At least one American, identified as Ryan Corbett, was released in an apparent prisoner exchange with the Taliban. In a statement, his family thanks both Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Taliban officials ...

Russian American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva says she was fantasizing about the moment she would once again step foot on American soil and hug her family from the moment she was arrested in October ...

A U.S.-Russian ballerina who was not part of last week’s massive prisoner swap between Russia and the West has pleaded guilty Wednesday to a treason charge, reports say. Ksenia Karelina made her first ...