Tens of thousands of ethnic Pashtuns attended the beginning of a three-day Jirga or grand assembly on October 11 near Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. The meeting was called by the nonviolent PTM, or ...

Abubakar Siddique, a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, specializes in the coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the ...

The United States has recently undertaken harsh measures against the ruling party in Georgia. The moves come in response to increasing authoritarian steps and heightening anti-Western rhetoric from ...

Russian forces push forward in the Donbas, diplomatic pressure on Kyiv increases, and the U.S. election looms. It's all ...

The leadership of the Orthodox Church in North Macedonia on September 12 expressed support for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which has been banned in Ukraine under a law signed last month ...

Thousands attended funerals for three Pashtun activists killed by Pakistani police in the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. Mourners gathered on October 10, a day after police fired at ...

At least four people were injured and dozens of buildings were damaged after waves of Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhya, ...

The Friendship Bridge was once a busy crossing between Estonia and Russia. Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Estonia has had to beef up its security, but keeping Russia out is difficult. Most ethnic ...

A growing population of wild horses is drawing visitors to the rugged mountains of western Bosnia-Herzegovina. Local people abandoned agricultural horses during the 1990s war, but the animals have ...

What do Ukraine's Mezhyhirya Residence, Turkmenistan's Oguzhan Palace, and Turkey's Presidential Complex have in common? All ...

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 41st week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo ...

Belarusian authorities have impounded the ancestral home of Alyaksei Dzikavitski, the Acting Director of Belsat TV, an ...