On Thursday, Ukraine marked the 75th anniversary of the worst single massacre of civilians in World War II and one of the bloodiest war crimes in human history — the…
continue readingIn celebration of the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary, adventurer Mikah Meyer is traveling across America with the goal of visiting every one of the more than 400 sites within…
continue readingSecretary of Defense Ash Carter said the so-called Asia-Pacific rebalance, a policy that places greater focus on the Asia-Pacific region, will unlock “tremendous potential” for the U.S. and its allies…
continue readingIn the month after a suicide bomber killed dozens of people attending a mostly Kurdish wedding in southeastern Turkey, the government has ramped up its military campaign against Islamic State…
continue readingPhilippine officials were awaiting clarification Thursday from President Rodrigo Duterte about military exercises with U.S. forces after he promised to honor their defense treaty but declared joint war games would…
continue readingThe anticipated Iraqi military offensive on Mosul could trigger one of the largest man-made disasters in many years, displacing more than one million Iraqi civilians, the U.N. refugee agency warned.…
continue readingZambian President Edgar Lungu has appointed eight women to his Cabinet in a decision that one women’s group in the country has welcomed as a positive step forward. In a…
continue readingThe head of one of Burundi’s opposition parties has been arrested and accused of collaborating with armed gangs, police said Thursday. Gervais Niyongabo, chairman of FEDES-SANGIRA, was detained in the…
continue readingA ban on companies funding election campaigns in Brazil that was meant to clean up politics amid the worst graft scandal in decades is instead helping wealthy businessmen and candidates…
continue readingU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry raised concerns during a meeting this week with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro about a Utah man jailed in the South American country for three…
continue readingThe European Union should help countries in Africa’s Sahel region tackle a population boom if it wants to keep more migrants from coming to its shores, a senior U.N. official…
continue readingU.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the United States will sharpen what he calls its “military edge” in order to remain a key power in the Asia-Pacific region. …
continue readingA senior U.S. official says an international conference scheduled for next week in Brussels is expected to bring pledges totaling more than $3 billion in development support for Afghanistan through…
continue readingGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stabilize a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine and do all he can to improve what Merkel called a “catastrophic humanitarian situation”…
continue readingA series of denials by Russian officials and state-media allegations of bias and foul play present a view that is starkly discrepant with international criminal investigators’ findings, announced this week,…
continue readingAerial bombardment by Russian and Syrian government warplanes on rebel-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo has reportedly killed hundreds, this week alone. A 5-year-old girl was trapped under…
continue readingReaction from Moscow and Kyiv, as an international probe says that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down with a Russian missile system, brought from Russia into a separatist-held part…
continue readingCritics call Bosnian Serb officials’ effort to “reconstruct” the atrocities a cynical attempt to distance themselves from the blame assigned by international investigators and war crimes prosecutors. …
continue readingUkraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has protested a ruling by Russia’s Supreme Court that upheld a ban on the Mejlis — the self-governing body of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine’s occupied…
continue readingU.S. historian Timothy Snyder calls Babi Yar, where more than 30,000 Jews were massacred by the Nazis in a two-day period 75 years ago, a tragedy for all of Ukraine.…
continue readingCadets rang 75 bells to commemorate the victims of an infamous atrocity committed during World War II in Kyiv. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …
continue readingA commuter train has crashed into a rail station in New Jersey. Emergency crews are arriving on the scene in Hoboken on Thursday morning. Photos from the scene show…
continue readingLibertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson showed his lack of knowledge about world affairs for a second time when he failed to come up with the name of a current leader…
continue readingAfghan President Ashraf Ghani has formally signed and put into force a much-touted peace pact with an ethnic Pashtun warlord who has been designated a “global terrorist” by the United…
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