Ukrainian farmers are being forced to work at gunpoint and some have had their farms confiscated, according to reports from inside Ukrainian territories occupied by Russian forces. Meanwhile, farmers on Ukrainian-held land are wearing bulletproof vests and helmets to protect themselves as they work.
Some of Ukraine's top classical musicians are touring Europe as part of a cultural mission that the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra says is part of "fighting Russia’s aggression in every possible way."
Every day, more evidence emerges of atrocities in Ukrainian communities that have been occupied by Russian forces. In the village of Buzova, near Kyiv, a mother was overcome with grief when she found the body of her son in a well.
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.
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