The Taliban's flogging of two women in northern Afghanistan may have helped expose the militant group's crackdown on the use of mobile phones.
A woman takes to a busy roundabout in the Iranian capital to protest the country's dress code, in the first apparent case of an anti-hijab demonstration in some time.
The children of a district outside Moscow are represented by U.S.-born mixed-martial-arts fighter Jeff Monson, who is widely known for his risible Russian. So they sent their request to him by video in English.
With each passing day, one of Europe's smallest populations loses another citizen as Bosnians turn in passports.
The local FSB museum in the city of Vladimir has organized a billboard campaign celebrating the wartime records of Josef Stalin's notorious secret police -- just in time for Russia's Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions.
Dozens of Uzbek villagers have been left homeless after their homes were bulldozed to make way for Shavkat Mirziyoev's presidential palace and a bigger road leading to it.
Canadian-American global thinker Steven Pinker uses statistics in his latest book to show how health, prosperity, peace, and happiness have vastly improved for most people in the world and living conditions continue to rise, despite media headlines that make it seem as though life is getting worse.
Newly declassified documents from the KGB archive in Ukraine shed light on how one leg of a 1947 journey to the Soviet Union by U.S. writer John Steinbeck and noted war photojournalist Robert Capa went down.
New measures to combat electoral fraud in Afghanistan have backfired, undermining the credibility of the recent parliamentary elections.
Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.
Vladimir Putin said Russians will go to heaven as “martyrs” if the country gets into a nuclear war and warned of a new “arms race” if Washington abandons treaties. Putin got bad domestic news, with an ally issuing a grim economic forecast and a poll putting his approval rating near an all-time low.
RFE/RL Exclusive: The FBI has refused to release laboratory results into the suspected poisoning of anti-Kremlin activist Vladimir Kara-Murza last year, frustrating his congressional supporters and deepening the mystery behind his illness.
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