As Vladimir Putin says “yes, but” to a US plan for a cease-fire in Ukraine, here’s what Donald Trump could do to make him ...

Iranian authorities are cracking down on female vocalists who have defied the country's restrictions on women singing in ...

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

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

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

Abdul Hamid Hakimi is a journalist at RFE/RL's Radio Azadi.

A Finnish court has convicted a Russian former far-right militia member of committing war crimes against Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Donbas region in 2014. The Helsinki court sentenced Voislav ...

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 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 ...

The first shot has been fired in a transatlantic trade war that opens up yet another front between the European Union and the ...

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

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, ...