As Washington works to implement a 2025 peace framework in the South Caucasus, Vice President JD Vance’s February visit aims to cement the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity initiative (TRIPP), support Armenia’s future nuclear plans, and boost US access to critical minerals.
Under a proposed 20th package of sanctions against Russia, which are expected to be introduced by the end of February, Kyrgyzstan could starting facing certain export restrictions.
White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran's FM Abbas Araqchi are set to meet on February 6 in a last-ditch bid to avert war. As a US naval armada nears, Tehran is facing a tough choice: Make a slew of concessions for an end to Washington's "maximum pressure" policy, or risk war.
Pakistan has used violence and political repression to stamp out a decades-old insurgency in Balochistan Province. The largest-ever attacks in the region have called into question that strategy.
When a Russian “nesting-doll satellite” maneuvered into close proximity to a US satellite last June, the concern at US Space Force was “would they release a kill vehicle from that and attack the satellite?”
Beijing’s education programs are reshaping perceptions among Balkan youth as soft power spreads beyond infrastructure.
Court documents obtained by RFE/RL show the first-ever verdict for human trafficking in Serbia involving Chinese nationals, with a citizen sentenced to four years in prison for trafficking two Chinese women.
In this week's newsletter, Rikard Jozwiak focuses on how to prevent former Russian soldiers from entering the EU.
A Russian man repeatedly convicted of violent crimes is accused of strangling a woman to death after returning from the war in Ukraine and stalking his wife as she sought shelter. The killing is a grim example of a deadly problem the invasion has spawned in the country that attacked its neighbor.
Iran’s so-called axis of resistance, its regional network of armed proxies and allied militant groups, could come to the fray to provide additional firepower to Tehran in the event of a conflict with the United States, experts say.
Prague is considering renewed engagement with Beijing but is calibrating its moves to US President Donald Trump’s approach to China’s Xi Jinping, wary of crossing Washington as Europe recalibrates, Czech officials told RFE/RL.
RFE/RL spoke with Hatam Qaderi, a Tehran-based academic, about Iran’s bloody crackdown on mass protests, the prospect of US military action against Tehran, and a possible transition from the Islamic republic.
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