Afghan authorities are troubled by a new radio station that has been broadcasting antigovernment propaganda in the eastern province of Nangarhar and seeking recruits for the militant group Islamic State.
Eccentric Russian political figure and world chess mogul Kirsan Ilyumzhinov says he plans to sue the U.S. Treasury for $50 billion after Washington hit him with sanctions -- and then use the money to finance a democracy promotion outfit in the United States.
The U.S. interest-rate hike is bad, and good, news for other countries. Here are some of the major effects.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual news conference on December 17, fielding questions for over three hours in one of the annual set-piece events.
A bill intended to close avenues for potential terrorists to enter the United States visa-free has left many Iranian-Americans fearing discriminatory consequences.
A 400-plus-page report by Spanish prosecutors on the alleged connections between an organized-crime gang and the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been published in Russian.
Russia’s new law allowing its Constitutional Court to reject rulings by international courts violates the country’s own supreme law, legal experts say.
Nearly nine months after the brutal mob killing of an Afghan woman sparked global condemnation, the victim's mother says the family is still struggling to come to terms with the tragedy.
A prominent Russian official has some bad news about bad news: It can kill you.
Montenegro's Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic says his country has a right to follow its own interests in moving toward NATO. In an interview with RFE/RL, he also says Moscow's anger over the move is more about Russia-NATO relations than about Montenegro itself.
As tensions continue over Turkey's downing of a Russian military jet last month, speculation swirls that Ankara might block Russian warships in the Turkish Straits, a key supply line for the Kremlin's military campaign in Syria.
Iran has banned the import of hundreds of American goods that include toilet paper, shuttlecocks, and tanks.
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