Mr. McFaul declined to comment on the matter in a Twitter question-and-answer session Tuesday.
"The joy was unreal, " Brian McFaul said upon hearing that his brother was safe.
Brian McFaul said it had been a terrible ordeal for his mother and father.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said it had summoned U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul for an explanation.
Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul for an urgent meeting to discuss Mr. Fogle's detention.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said it had summoned U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul for an explanation.
Only Mr McFaul's jeep survived the attack, crashing, at which point the hostage managed to break free.
Mr McFaul said the family would now wait beside the telephone to wait for Stephen's next call.
McFaul told reporters about a third of the session was devoted to Syria, making it the biggest single topic.
Michael McFaul, the recently appointed US ambassador to Russia, has already gotten off to a pretty rocky start.
Michael A. McFaul, a Senior Director of Russian Affairs at the US National Security Council, delivered the keynote address.
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Former hostage Stephen McFaul, who escaped Thursday, gave a dramatic account of his ordeal to his brother, Brian McFaul.
"The kidnap ordeal of Belfast man, Stephen McFaul, has ended, " said the taoiseach, or Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny.
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Stephen McFaul had managed to contact his relatives twice before while in captivity.
Mr McFaul said the family had received support from the Irish government's Foreign Affairs Department and Sinn Fein's Paul Maskey.
We also have Lael Brainard, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, and Mike McFaul, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia.
Ambassador McFaul can also speak to some of the issues that were discussed in the meeting when we get to questions.
Both the USS Laboon and USS McFaul are equipped with satellite-guided Tomahawk cruise missiles that can be programmed to hit specific targets.
McFaul, meanwhile, understands that the Russians tend to value discretion very highly and that they do not take kindly to holier-than-thou public lectures.
What is most ridiculous about this entire flare-up is that the disagreement between Kramer and McFaul is actually a relatively minor, tactical one.
The only Northern Irish worker involved, Stephen McFaul, 36, from Belfast, escaped from his captors after the jeep in which he was travelling crashed.
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The ministry said Mr. Fogle had been declared persona non grata and Russia demanded his immediate departure in a meeting Tuesday with U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul.
Former hostage Stephen McFaul had plastic explosives strapped around his neck, duct tape over his mouth and rope around his hands, his brother Brian McFaul told CNN from Belfast.
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas and the USS McFaul delivered more than 230, 000 pounds of aid to the port of Batumi, south of Poti, when they arrived in recent weeks, the Navy said.
After all, as that New York Times article makes clear, McFaul is in a position of enormous personal responsibility and, more than anyone else, will help determine the next several years of the America-Russia bilateral relationship.
Mr. McFaul, who had left for Algeria the day after Christmas, called his wife from the site by cellphone early hours Wednesday and told her that there was gunfire and the compound was under attack, the spokesman said.
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