Russian authorities use various strategies to recruit new troops to replenish its supply of soldiers for its nearly ...

Despite claims of success in Ukraine, new CSIS data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains, ...

Emergency power cuts have hit several Ukrainian cities and neighboring Moldova. Ukraine’s Energy Minister says a technical ...

The regime in Iran has been shaken by pressure from street protests. Will the people be able to overthrow the Islamist authorities, or will the government suppress the protests, and what consequences ...

Iran has been a major supplier of military equipment to Russia in recent years, especially since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but experts have told RFE/RL that this ...

For too long, the EU has allowed Iran to act with impunity through inconsistent policies and failed diplomacy. Given Iran's ...

IT specialist Ihar Karatkou is in the middle of a five-year sentence at Corrective Colony No. 2, a prison in Babruysk, southeast of Minsk. Why? He donated the equivalent of about $10 to the Kastus ...

President Donald Trump spent much of 2025 attempting what had eluded his predecessors: personally engaging both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an ...

The same logic that allows Iran's authorities to execute their own people also allows them to support Russia's war of ...