Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the last week of 2016. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
On December 30, 2006, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging at an Iraqi military base called Camp Justice. Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist after becoming president in 1979, before being toppled by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Violence shook the Middle East, migrants made dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean and Europe, and voting in the United Kingdom and the United States produced shock results. These photographs tell some of the stories that defined 2016. (44 PHOTOS)
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 51st week of 2016.
Before Aleppo became a symbol of the horrors of Syria's ongoing war, it was known for its traders and craftspeople -- a city where Muslims, Jews, and Christians rubbed elbows in some of the most elegant bazaars and courtyards in the Middle East. But a current of grievances ran beneath the cobblestones. The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT has allowed RFE/RL to reproduce 14 images from their remarkable archive to help tell the story of Syria's devastated former second city and the war that has engulfed it.
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond.
Photojournalists who captured some of the most powerful images of 2016 tell the stories behind them in their own words.
On December 8, 1991, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus declared that the Soviet Union had "ceased to exist." Twenty-five years later, we look back on some key milestones -- inside and outside the Soviet Union – on the road to its collapse.
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 48th week of 2016.
Fidel Castro, the man who led Cuba for nearly five decades, has died at the age of 90. After sweeping to power in a communist uprising in 1959, Castro served as prime minister or president of the Caribbean island state for nearly 50 years.
A dirt road to the village of Khyurdabakh runs under a crumbling wall made of stone, clay, and sand. If you look up, you will see decrepit houses looming overhead. The village has long been abandoned by its residents, except for one woman.
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