NATO Ministers Tentatively Plan Brussels Meeting With Tillerson
NATO diplomats say a meeting of alliance foreign ministers originally scheduled for April 5-6 is now tentatively planned for ...
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Hundreds Detained In Antigovernment Protests In Belarus
Riot police in Minsk detained hundreds of people on March 25 during protests against President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s ...
Coalition Official Says Final Drive On Raqqa Is Near
The French defense minister says the Western-backed coalition in Syria is ready to launch its final push to drive Islamic State ...
Belarusian Opposition Leader Nyaklyaeu Detained Ahead Of Protest Rally
Belarusian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu has been detained upon arrival in Minsk after ...
U.S. Commander Says Russians Looking To Expand Influence In Libya
The chief of the U.S. military’s Africa Command says Russia is attempting to expand its influence in Libya, something the ...
Tillerson To Visit NATO After Furor Over Skipping April Meeting
The United States says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit NATO in Brussels next week, an announcement that follows furor ...
Medvedev’s Air Of Invulnerability Dented As Russian Communists Back Corruption Probe
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is facing unusual pressure over corruption allegations from Communist Party lawmakers who ...
AP: U.S. Turns Down Invitation To Afghanistan Peace Conference in Russia
The United States has turned down an invitation to a multinational conference on Afghanistan that Russia plans to host on April ...
Belarus Rights Group Says Some 130 Jailed As Annual Rally Nears
A Belarusian human rights group says that about 130 activists who have protested against an unemployment tax have been jailed for ...
The Daily Vertical: The Latest Victim
The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL. ...
Nowhere To Be Found: Firms With Official Ties Absent From Key Azerbaijani Registry
Observers worry that the absence from a tax registry of dozens of companies previously tied to Azerbaijani officials or their ...
President Of Russian Academy Of Sciences Relieved Of Duties
Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) President Vladimir Fortov, a vocal critic of the Kremlin, has been relieved from his duties by ...
Top NATO General Says Russia ‘Perhaps’ Supplying Taliban In Afghanistan
NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe has said that Russia may be helping to supply Taliban militants that are fighting ...
Kosovar Rufai Sufis Pierce Their Way To Enlightenment
For many who celebrate the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, the vernal equinox is a time to renew ancient traditions. So it was for ...
Blast In Western Mosul Kills 130, Including Women, Children
More than 100 people have been killed in western Mosul by a March 22 explosion in a residential section of the city, military ...
Five Kyrgyz Activists Released From Bishkek Jail
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan released five activists from a Bishkek jail on March 23. They were arrested five days earlier after ...
NATO Chief: Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Can Be Rescheduled For Tillerson To Attend
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he is “absolutely certain” a semiannual meeting of the alliance’s ...
Trump Congratulates Iranians, Others Celebrating Norouz
U.S. President Donald Trump has sent congratulations to mark Norouz, the Persian New Year, passing on good wishes to “all ...
Lithuania, Ukraine Reject Lukashenka’s ‘Provocateurs’ Claim
Lithuania and Ukraine have rejected Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s allegations that they were involved in ...
European March For Aleppo Arrives In Sarajevo
Civil rights activists turned up in Sarajevo after marching through cities and towns in Europe on their way to Aleppo, Syria. The ...
Magnitsky Lawyer’s Condition Said To Improve After Apartment-House Plunge
A lawyer representing the family of the deceased Russian whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky remained hospitalized on March 22 after ...
Afghanistan Backs U.S. Call For More Troops To Help Battle Taliban
Afghanistan wants the United States to send more forces to help battle the Taliban and the Islamic State extremist group, the ...
Tillerson Urges U.S. Senate To Approve Montenegro’s NATO Bid
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has written to the leaders of the U.S. Senate urging them to approve Montenegro’s bid ...
Late Russian Envoy Churkin Remembered With Praise, Silence At UN
Russia’s late United Nations ambassador Vitaly Churkin was remembered with tributes and a moment of silence in the ...