Syria's new leaders have reportedly given high-ranking military posts to several foreign Islamist fighters. It is raising ...

Iran executed at least 901 people in 2024 – including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of killing their husbands while ...

Thousands of protesters have blocked a key highway in northern Pakistan over power outages. Residents in the city of Ali Abad in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region say they've faced outages of up to ...

Pakistani security forces suffered the deadliest year in almost a decade. The trend has worried residents, who say the state ...

Journalist Cecilia Sala, who was held by Tehran police for almost three weeks for her "journalistic activities," has been released and is headed home.

Ukraine says it hit an oil depot inside Russia that served a strategic air base in the southern Saratov region in what appears to have been a strike with Ukrainian weapons.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has said again that he is eager to see negotiations with Russia on ending the war in Ukraine begin soon after he returns to the White House but gave no specifics on ...

Ukraine has launched a new offensive in Russia's Kursk region. Reporting from the ground is patchy and often contradictory, but one Russian village has emerged as a key focus of the fighting.

The end of Russian natural-gas transit across Ukraine is a blow to Moscow, but it could provide the Kremlin with sharpened ...

Russia-controlled judges in Ukraine's Crimea continue to sentence Ukrainian activists for alleged "espionage" in relation to activities that they carried out in their hometowns while under Russian ...

The Ukrainian military is continuing its assault in Russia's Kursk region, with Moscow claiming it is repelling advancing Ukrainian troops. Ukraine first launched a surprise attack on the Kursk region ...

RFE/RL visits the front lines in the Zaporizhzhya region where Ukrainian troops say they are fighting to defend their positions amid winter rain and fog. They say Russians wearing "anti-thermal cloaks ...