Mickey Bergman of the Richardson Center, which specializes in freeing American political prisoners, tells Times of Israel about the talks leading to the basketball player's release

Biden announces basketball player returning home in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; jailed former marine not freed as part of deal

State Department says Moscow unilaterally postponed meeting as Russian deputy FM rails at American 'reluctance to listen to our signals and reckon with our priorities'

Washington has been warning Moscow for weeks over public comments from top Russian officials that they could use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

Ahead of court hearing, imprisoned athlete 'begs' for lighter sentence, saying ongoing saga has been 'very, very stressful and very traumatic'

US basketball champion is appealing her conviction for drug possession after she was found with cannabis oil vape canisters at Moscow airport

North American Aerospace Defense Command says the Tu-95s weren't seen as threat, with incident coming amid heightened tensions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Instead of zipping past each other, convoys backing opposing sides of Syrian civil war stop to chat, pose for pictures and exchange uniform patches as momentos of the interaction

US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts head for orbiting international facility after launch from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome

US president says such a step by Putin, who's losing ground in Ukraine, 'would change the face of war unlike anything since World War II'; 'They'd become even more of a pariah'