Pakistan is seeing an unprecedented number of extremists and militant groups running in national elections on July 25.
A base equipped with tanks, gun range, and military equipment in a small Slovak town has raised fears among officials, but not locals.
Award-winning RFE/RL journalist Ulanbek Egizbaev had received death threats ahead of his apparent drowning, fueling speculation that he might have been the victim of foul play.
Activists in Tbilisi say health officials should pay attention to the tragic tale of a transgender woman who died in a Batumi clinic from an AIDS-related illness, arguing that transgender patients face unique difficulties that must be considered to ensure their "honor and dignity" under current antidiscrimination laws.
Belarusian journalist Dzmitry Halko was sentenced to four years of "limited freedom" by a Minsk court for assaulting a police officer. Certain of his innocence, he tells RFE/RL he feels "trapped" by a corrupt system.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will reach out to Iranian-Americans over the weekend in a speech delivered in Southern California -- home to tens of thousands of Iranian-Americans.
From Washington to Moscow, the summit in Helsinki was widely seen as a big win for Vladimir Putin. But despite President Donald Trump's follow-up invitation for Putin to visit the White House within months, the meeting may have fallen short of some of the Kremlin's more ambitious expectations. And when it was over, Putin returned home to a country facing the prickly problem of pension reform, with trepidation over planned retirement-age hikes denting his popularity.
A private Uzbek TV channel has issued an apology after viewers criticized it for failing to edit out "immoral" scenes from the latest film from U.S. comedian Amy Schumer.
RFE/RL presents the results of its open-source investigation of the 12 Russian military-intelligence officers and the military units named in a U.S. indictment issued in connection with the hacking of Democratic Party computers during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
A 29-year-old Russian woman is accused of carrying out an extensive and sordid campaign on behalf of a Russian government official to secretly cultivate ties with conservative political groups in the United States.
A cleric has declared jihad against the Afghan media in a move that has riled up journalists and religious authorities alike.
A recent crackdown on students in Iran has come under criticism from university professors and others who have condemned the arrests and sentencing of dozens of students activists on security charges.
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