A blurry photo shows a man apparently being forced to kneel in the snow by two other men in plain clothes. Released by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) last week, the image allegedly shows the ...

Iran’s war with the United States and Israel has pushed the Islamic republic to the verge of economic collapse. Observers say that Washington is betting that economic pressure will force it to ...

As Washington once again wrestles with the question of how far the United States should go in supporting Ukraine, a resolution from one of the country's most geographically distant states -- Hawaii -- ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to release several international aid workers who were "forcibly disappeared" from their offices last month and are still missing ...

China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea -- are increasingly drawing on one another's resources to withstand Western pressure. For Washington, the strategic dilemma is the extent to which their alignment ...

As Kyiv struggles to counter deadly Russian missile strikes, Ukrainian officials say Moscow is once again using North Korean weaponry to hit cities in Ukraine. Here are the missiles that Pyongyang is ...

President Vladimir Putin said Russia would seize ships belonging to European countries if they tried to sell cargo confiscated from Russia-linked vessels suspected of belonging to Moscow's so-called ...

EU diplomats that track Russian FIMI have told RFE/RL that Moscow's “digital fingerprint” was clearly all over the Ceuta ...

Several thousand women die during childbirth every year in Afghanistan, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.

Russian authorities said a Ukrainian drone strike killed at least 13 people in the central Russian region of Tatarstan, one ...

As the conflict in the Persian Gulf continues to impact and shape the region, journalists from RFE/RL's Central Newsroom and Iranian service, Radio Farda, deliver ongoing updates and analysis. US ...

Kyiv has sounded the alarm as Rassvet, Russia's equivalent to Starlink, takes shape. Experts say the satellite Internet system could have a major impact on the war in Ukraine, but there is one key ...