Three Pakistani Taliban leaders have reportedly been killed by a joint Afghan and NATO air strike in the Laman area of Afghanistan’s Paktika Province, Pakistani security sources say. …
continue readingSome of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL’s broadcast region and beyond for the 38th week of 2016. …
continue readingThe United States and its European allies say it is up to Russia to bring about a cease-fire in Syria, warning that patience with Moscow was “not unlimited.” …
continue readingConflicts over land in Colombia are likely to increase following a peace deal to end half a century of war as once no-go areas in the Andean country open up…
continue readingZimbabwe’s president said Saturday that the African Union was planning to form a splinter group with countries such as Russia, China and India if the U.N. Security Council did not…
continue readingUN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “appalled by the chilling military escalation” in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, his spokesman says. …
continue readingThe Yazidi people of Iraq who fled from Islamic State militants may never be able to return to their homeland, according to the leader of the minority group. Yazidi leader…
continue readingJeremy Corbyn was re-elected as chairman of Britain’s opposition Labor Party on Saturday, soundly defeating his sole challenger. A 67-year-old socialist, Corbyn won almost 62 percent of the more than…
continue readingGabon’s newly re-elected president, Ali Bongo, said Saturday that he would seek to form a new government based on a national political dialogue that will “most likely” include leading opposition…
continue readingSaudi Arabia is fighting a growing threat from the Islamic State that is both breeding homegrown terrorists and using the kingdom’s conservative religious teachings to undermine the monarchy. Saudi security…
continue readingPresident Barack Obama led the nation in dedicating the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Tens of thousands of people gathered Saturday on the National Mall in…
continue readingSlamming Pakistan as an exporter of terrorism, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused his country’s South Asian neighbor of trying to destabilize Asia and vowed to isolate it…
continue readingBosnia-Herzegovina’s autonomous Bosnian Serb entity is pushing ahead with a controversial referendum on September 25 in defiance of a high-court ruling from Sarajevo. …
continue readingAn Italian navy ship has docked in the southern Iranian port of Bandar Abbas in the first official visit by a Western naval vessel to the country in 15 years.…
continue readingVideos released Saturday by police in Charlotte, North Carolina, show a deadly confrontation between police and Keith Lamont Scott, a black man who was shot to death Tuesday, triggering riots…
continue readingA Brazilian Supreme Court judge has authorized a preliminary investigation into allegations from former Transpetro head Sergio Machado that President Michel Temer illegally solicited campaign money in 2012. Machado, who…
continue readingRussian special police have arrested the president of the All-Russian Supporters Association (ARSA), Aleksandr Shprygin. …
continue readingIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accused Pakistan of trying to destabilize Asia by exporting terrorism while vowing to work to isolate it internationally. …
continue readingHillary Clinton and Donald Trump will suspend weekend preparations for Monday’s presidential debate when they meet separately Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a key U.S. ally in the…
continue readingHuge orange flames and plumes of smoke filled the air at Nairobi National Park in April, a sobering image as 105 tons of elephant ivory and 1.35 tons of rhino…
continue readingIn Uganda, the 5th annual gay pride parade was scheduled to take place Saturday. However, police intervention quickly broke up the celebration before the march got underway. After a second…
continue readingEuropean leaders gathered in Vienna Saturday to discuss how to better fortify the European Union’s outer borders against illegal migration and trafficking. The migration summit will also focus on how…
continue readingThe mighty African elephant and the shy, reclusive rhinoceros are the stars of this year’s conference of members of a global wildlife protection treaty in South Africa. As the meeting…
continue readingU.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday that he was “appalled by the chilling military escalation” in the war-ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo that witnesses said was spearheaded by Syrian forces…
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