Ukraine has shattered assumptions about Russian military might, exposing severe weaknesses and forcing Moscow to adapt. After more than four years of full-scale war, can a battered but still dangerous Russia claim superpower status?
The US is threatening to hit Iran with what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called “measures like have never been seen in the history of economic isolation on a country." What could those measures be – and will they work?
A lack of rights, falling wages, deteriorating living conditions: Five years of Taliban rule have brought changes to Afghanistan, but not the ones most Afghans hoped for.
A number of senior figures in Russian drone companies are facing fraud charges, with one accused of passing Chinese drones off as being produced in Russia. Drones made by both companies have been presented to President Vladimir Putin as examples of homegrown innovation.
Amid a spate of tunnels being dug from Belarus into the EU, border authorities say Minsk is dismissing intelligence alerting it to migrant tunnel construction.
Just before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, RFE/RL spoke with several young Afghans in Kabul who voiced their fears and anxieties about the future. We have since followed how their lives have unfolded. We reconnected with them on the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s seizure of power.
Prominent ethnic Kazakh writer Zhengis Reskhan faces a closed-door trial in China on an allegation of “undermining ethnic unity,” his family says, weeks after a controversial new law governing minority affairs took effect.
Russian authorities are bringing treason charges against people for taking photos of war graves, a key indicator of the extent of the country's war dead. An activist has told Current Time that the photos are often also used by scammers targeting families who have lost relatives in the fighting.
Iran’s war with the United States and Israel has pushed the Islamic republic to the verge of economic collapse. Observers say that Washington is betting that economic pressure will force it to capitulate.
Several thousand women die during childbirth every year in Afghanistan, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.
Kyiv has sounded the alarm as Rassvet, Russia's equivalent to Starlink, takes shape. Experts say the satellite Internet system could have a major impact on the war in Ukraine, but there is one key vulnerability of the Russian system.
A children’s song. Doves. Suprematist art. A Hiroshima photograph. Few were surprised by the court decision banning Russia’s Yabloko party from running in upcoming Duma elections. Many were perplexed over how authorities went about doing it.
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