Surviving Russia’s notoriously harsh correctional system is not just a matter of strength or smarts. It’s a matter of food, ...

Central Asians are pushing back against Russian lecturing, racist comments, and mistreatment of migrant laborers. Joining ...

Israel continued to bomb areas in southern Lebanon on October 13, a day after it struck the marketplace in the city of Nabatiyeh. Meanwhile, sirens wailed in the Israeli city of Haifa as an ...

Anything is possible in Russian PresidentVladimir Putin’s “Year of The Family,” as he calls 2024. So is fining those who promote “hostile, American child-free ideology.” While Putin says a family with ...

A series of shooting incidents believed to be linked to a tribal land feud in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have ...

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 41st week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive. 1 The Northern Lights illuminate the sky near ...

Georgia is famous for its heady wines, but many vineyard owners in the Kakheti region are swapping vines for hazelnuts because of declining prices for grapes. One vineyard owner told RFE/RL that, ...

Pakistan has banned the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a civil organization campaigning for the rights of the country’s Pashtun ...

Multiple explosions from Israeli air strikes rocked the suburbs of Beirut late on October 3 as the United States said it is discussing strikes on Iran's oil facilities as retaliation for Tehran's ...

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

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

The Taliban announced in August that it had destroyed over 20,000 musical instruments in Afghanistan in the past year. The ...