The U.S. government has skipped a meeting of a human rights commission that was examining President Donald Trump’s ...

Sayed Jamal Mubarez, a rapper from northern Afghanistan who makes a living as a barber, has won the Afghan Star competition. ...

Paul Manafort is under scrutiny again after a Ukrainian lawmaker released documents he says show that U.S. President Donald ...

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A suspect in the deadly 2002 hostage-taking attack on a Moscow theater has been sentenced to 19 years in prison. ...

Johannes Hahn, the European Union’s enlargement commissioner, plans to visit Macedonia on March 21 in another attempt to ...

Pakistan’s Prime Minister ordered the two main border crossings with Afghanistan be reopened on March 20. Pakistan closed ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that the government’s economic policies have fallen short and that ...

Parents held a silent protest in the Georgian capital to demanded that government funded therapy be available for all autistic ...

A leading rival to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been attacked on a street during a campaign stop in Siberia. Aleksei ...

Israel has warned Damascus not to use its air-defense systems against its warplanes after the Syrians fired at Israeli jets ...

An RFE/RL contributing correspondent is set to go on trial in Russia-annexed Crimea on separatism-related charges for an article ...

Germany has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertion that it owes “vast sums of money” to NATO and the ...

Several hundred protesters in the Belarusian city of Slonim rallied on March 19 in opposition to a tax that authoritarian ...

The NATO-led mission in Afghanistan says three U.S. troops were wounded in a March 19 attack by an Afghan soldier, the first ...

Unbeaten Kazakh boxer Gennady Golovkin defeated Danny Jacobs in a unanimous decision to unify all major middleweight titles under ...

Moscow city authorities have banned an anticorruption rally planned by opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, Russian state-run news ...

North Korean state media say the country has tested a powerful new rocket engine, with leader Kim Jong Un hailing a “new ...

Bulgarian officials say they are prepared to increase patrols and complete a razor-wire fence along its border with Turkey to ...

Russia has set April 14 as the date for international talks on the conflict in Afghanistan, Russian state-run news agency ...

Iraqi security forces have advanced into the Old City of Mosul, where they are locked in pitched street battles with Islamic ...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says tensions on the Korean Peninsula have reached a “dangerous level” and ...

French authorities say a man has been shot dead after attempting to seize a gun from a soldier at Paris’s Orly airport on ...