Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is due to meet with Syrian opposition representatives in Moscow on January 27, the Foreign ...

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected an appeal by Serbia’s soccer federation against Kosovo joining the Union of ...

Russia, Iran and Turkey said they would establish their own process for observing and enforcing the fragile cease-fire in Syria. ...

Leaders of Russia’s Jewish community have accused a top lawmaker of making anti-Semitic remarks when he criticized ongoing ...

A court in Kyrgyzstan reinstated a life prison sentence for a human rights activist, in a verdict described by the UN as ...

At least four people have died following heavy rain and snow in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province. (RFE/RL’s Radio ...

Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid has told visiting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that she supports continued sanctions ...

There are at least four separate coalitions that claim to be battling the extremist group Islamic State (IS). Three of those ...

The Pentagon has denied Russian state-media reports that it provided coordinates for Russian air strikes targeting Islamic State ...

Four months ahead of Iran’s presidential election, the absence of a clear challenger to face incumbent Hassan Rohani has ...

Rebel factions and representatives of the Syria government joined peace talks in the Kazakh capital, Astana, that began on ...

The governor of Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand Province said Iranian and Pakistanis have recently met with Taliban ...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says his country must be ready for “turbulent” times during the term ...

The Wall Street Journal reports on January 22 that U.S. counterintelligence agents have investigated communications that ...

Energy ministers from OPEC and Russia say they have agreed on a method to monitor compliance of a deal to slash oil output ...

Iran has sentenced an Iranian-British woman accused of trying to overthrow the Islamic republic’s government to five years ...

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has been reelected as head of the ruling United Russia Party. ...

The Russian, Turkish, and Iranian co-hosting delegations to the Syrian truce conference in Kazakhstan have been meeting to draw ...

The British government suppressed information about a failed nuclear missile test last June, The Times newspaper has reported. ...

Roman Catholic Pope Francis has warned Europeans against the dangers of populism, urging them not to repeat the mistakes of the ...

Dozens were killed and injured when a passenger train derailed early on January 22 in India’s Andhra Pradesh state. ...

The head of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council — a government panel tasked with negotiating an end to the ...

Activists in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union took part in “sister marches” joining numerous global ...