From fierce nomadic competitions, to the refined elegance of show jumping, Kyrgyzstan’s equestrians have shown their world-class skills on horses. We found some of the best young riders in the…
continue readingHuman Rights Watch (HRW) says the brother of an exiled Turkmen dissident journalist died on September 4, four days after he was kidnapped and beaten by unknown assailants in Turkmenistan.…
continue readingVehicles struggled through deep water on the streets of Baku, after two days of heavy rain flooded large parts of the city. (RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service) …
continue readingTurkish-Kazakh schools across Kazakhstan are being renamed amid a campaign by Turkey against the exiled Turkish Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. …
continue readingIraqi troops and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have liberated several villages from the Islamic State (IS) extremist group on the first day of their offensive to retake the city of Mosul.…
continue readingWith the aim of reminding bureaucrats that they are now legally required to file electronic asset declarations, anticorruption activists played off the word “trusi,” which means both underwear and cowards…
continue readingA senior Afghan official has confirmed that two secret rounds of peace talks between Afghanistan’s government and Taliban representatives have been held in Doha, Qatar, since early September. …
continue readingActivists had an outsized pair of red underpants ready for the Ukrainian president, in an effort to encourage him to submit a declaration of interests. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …
continue readingAn Iranian-American businessman and his 80-year-old father have reportedly been given 10 years in prison each for cooperation with the United States. …
continue readingThe family of an Iranian-American businessman and his 80-year-old father say the two men have been sentenced to 10 years in prison by an Iranian court that convicted them of…
continue readingFrance told judges at the United Nations’ highest court on Tuesday that they do not have jurisdiction in a case brought by Equatorial Guinea aimed at halting a Paris money-laundering…
continue readingIn a church last month on the coast of Montenegro, uniformed Cossacks from across the Balkans gathered to form a new “Balkan Cossack Army.” The movement is directed by Russia…
continue readingDeep in the woods on the outskirts of Moscow, a sudden burst of gunfire sends a flock of birds screeching into the sky. A dozen people dressed in military fatigues…
continue readingMidway through releasing a series of damaging disclosures about U.S. presidential contender Hillary Clinton, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his hosts at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London abruptly cut him…
continue readingThe European Union’s security commissioner has warned that the bloc should be prepared for an influx of militants if the Islamic State (IS) group is driven out of the northern…
continue readingU.S. President Barack Obama says a battle now underway to recapture Iraq’s northern city of Mosul from Islamic State (IS) militants will be “a difficult fight,” but he is confident…
continue readingUNESCO’s executive board on Tuesday approved a resolution that Israel says denies the deep historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem — and that has angered Israel’s government and many…
continue readingThousands of Iraqis have gathered outside the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad to protest against Turkey’s military presence in northern Iraq. …
continue readingSecrecy laws imposed by the Australian government have effectively put a gag on officials and restrict access to government information, a U.N. investigation found. Michel Forst, the U.N.’s special rapporteur…
continue readingConcerned about the outcome of the U.S. presidential race, the world has been watching closely as Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump tout their plans for handling terrorism and…
continue readingThe World Health Organization recently linked air pollution to millions of premature deaths around the world. Most of the pollution comes from burning fossil fuels for electricity and transportation that…
continue readingConcerned about the outcome of the U.S. Presidential election, the world has been watching closely as Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump tout their plans for handling terrorism and…
continue readingLeaders from Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine will gather Wednesday in Berlin to discuss further action on the Minsk peace plan, which was meant to end the violence in Eastern…
continue readingAustralia has rejected allegations by human rights campaigners that conditions on a small South Pacific Island where migrants are kept “amount to torture.” A new Amnesty International report claims that…
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