Russian forces have been accused of committing atrocities in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital.
An Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber who killed 64 people at a Shi'ite mosque in northwest Pakistan last week was an Afghan exile who returned home to train for the attack, police said on March 9.
At least three people were killed and 18 others injured in a bomb blast on March 2 in Pakistan's troubled southwestern province of Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, officials said.
The Taliban's chief spokesman on March 1 rowed back comments he made suggesting Afghans would be barred from leaving the country, saying he had been misunderstood.
The Taliban has clamped down on Afghans leaving the country as the militants continue a massive security sweep, going house-to-house across the capital on February 28 in a "clearing operation."
The Netherlands has evacuated 294 Afghan citizens who arrived in neighboring Pakistan over the past few days and will be flown soon to a Dutch destination, the Foreign Ministry said on February 23.
A Pakistani court sentenced the scion of a wealthy industrialist family to death on February 24 for raping and beheading his girlfriend in a murder that sparked an outcry over violence against women in the deeply patriarchal nation.
Concern is rising among many Hungarians living near the Ukrainian border as fears over a Russian attack on Ukraine have grown. RFE/RL spoke to people in the Hungarian villages of Zahony and Gemzse and asked them how hostilities might affect the border region.
In Afghanistan's Panjshir Province, former police officers and soldiers scrape together a living by digging emeralds out of the frigid Hindu Kush Mountains.
The first Ukrainian troops have been given training with NLAW (new-generation light anti-tank weapons) delivered by Britain to boost Kyiv's defenses as Russia continues to mass forces on the border.
Video showed protesters storming City Hall in Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, on January 5. After overwhelming police, they stripped them of their riot gear and made piles of shields and batons next to the building.
Kazakh police used stun grenades in the early hours of January 5 as hundreds of protesters tried to storm the mayor's office in the country's biggest city, Almaty. (AP, AFP, Reuters)
The humanitarian situation in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan was discussed at a December 19 extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
A Moscow trade show pitching glitzy funeral options takes on grim significance as hundreds of Russians die each day from COVID-19.
More than 20 million people in Uzbekistan are eligible to vote in a presidential election, in which incumbent President Shavkat Mirziyoev is widely expected to win a second term of office given the absence of opposition candidates.
Hundreds of Afghan women have been leading protests in several cities across the country demanding the protection of rights for women and denouncing what they say is Pakistan's support for the Taliban takeover. At a Kabul protest on September 7, Taliban gunmen fired in the air.
Thousands of Montenegrins blocked the roads to Cetinje, a former capital of Montenegro, before the inauguration of Metropolitan Joanikije as the leader of the Montenegrin branch of the Serbian Orthodox Church on September 5. Hundreds clashed with the police in Cetinje.
Romania will soon conduct a census of its brown bear population using DNA for the first time, with tensions high between villagers fearing further attacks and conservationists warning against looser hunting laws.
The Defense ministries of Britain and Belgium have released footage from ongoing evacuations of Afghan contractors and their families. The British video shows evacuees walking toward a plane in Kabul on August 21. The Belgian video from the same day captures the arrival of 34 Afghans in Belgium.
Current Time freelance reporter Liza Karimi describes life on the streets of Taliban-controlled Kabul, three days after the militants first entered the Afghan capital. She says many people -- especially women -- remain fearful, despite Taliban reassurances.
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