Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 10th week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo ...

This week's Farda Briefing looks at why Iran continues to reject direct talks with the Donald Trump administration while ...

The EU has removed a number of Russians from its sanctions list after pressure from Hungary and Slovakia, securing a deal to ...

US-made weapons continued to be actively used on Ukraine's battlefields despite a temporary pause in military aid from the United States. RFE/RL's Maryan Kushnir met frontline troops in the eastern ...

Russian forces claim to have pulled off an audacious operation, using a subterranean pipeline to sneak past Ukrainian ...

Once called a "breath of fresh air in the Balkans" by Washington, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik represented a moderate alternative to hard-line nationalists convicted for war crimes. Now, Western ...

Russian forces are scrambling to build on their rapid advance in retaking areas of the Kursk region, claiming control of the town of Sudzha on March 12, and President Vladimir Putin has met with ...

As Russia concentrates troops and firepower on retaking the areas of the Kursk region still occupied by Ukraine, its troops say they have captured the town of Sudzha, but it's mostly a pile of ruins, ...

Greenland’s parliamentary elections delivered a surprise victory for the pro-business Democrats, signaling a pushback against Trump’s interest in the island and a slower march toward independence from ...

The border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan has reopened for the first time in nearly four years after a historic frontier delimitation agreement was signed by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and ...

Just weeks after a four-day border war in 2022, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and Tajik leader Emomali Rahmon couldn't shake hands. Now, as they prepare to put a border dispute behind them, they are ...

The first shot has been fired in a transatlantic trade war that opens up yet another front between the European Union and the United States after their increasingly diverging views on Russia's war ...