A university student in Tehran was detained and sent to a psychiatric ward after stripping down to her underwear in public. In a demonstration of support, activist Rokhsareh Mohammad Khani took ...

A Tajik opposition activist who was deported from Germany was arrested immediately upon his arrival in Dushanbe. Dilmurod ...

In a move that extends Russia's crackdown on dissent, the Justice Ministry on November 8 added several high-profile ...

The U.S. Justice Department on November 8 unsealed criminal charges that detail a plot backed by Iran to kill President-elect ...

The last known time Oleh Tatarov flew to Moscow was on April 22, 2019, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ...

The last known time Oleh Tatarov flew to Moscow was on April 22, 2019, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ...

Donald Trump’s election to a new term as U.S. president could ignite a push for an end to the war in Ukraine, but the risks and the hurdles are high.

The premiere of a play directed by world-famous actor and director John Malkovich for Bulgaria's National Theater was disrupted by pro-Russian nationalist demonstrators. The 19th-century comedy Arms ...

The Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported that the bodies of 563 servicemen have ...

Welcome to The Azadi Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that unpacks the key issues in Afghanistan. To subscribe, click here. I'm ...

Dozens more dead seals have been found on the Kazakh shores of the Caspian Sea, adding to the hundreds already discovered to ...

Bulgaria’s interior minister has accused the theater director behind Hollywood A-lister John Malkovich’s production of a 19th ...