The prisoner who wrote Guantanamo Diary, a memoir recounting his daily life as a detainee in a controversial U.S. military prison, has been released from captivity after 14 years. Mohamedou…
continue readingBuilt in 1985, the Korean War Memorial honors the 5.8 million Americans who served in the conflict. The most notable feature of the memorial are the 19 Stainless steel sculptures…
continue readingU.S. government officials deny that any deal was proposed between the State Department and the FBI to change the classification of a Hillary Clinton email in exchange for allowing more…
continue readingPrime Minister Haider al-Abadi has promised only regular Iraqi forces will enter Sunni-dominated Mosul in the battle to oust jihadists who have controlled the city for two years. However, in…
continue readingA 6.4 magnitude earthquake rattled Tibet early Monday, followed by at least two strong aftershocks. No casualties have been reported. One Tibetan nomad from a neighboring region tells VOA Tibetan…
continue readingThe South Sudan army says it killed more than 50 rebels and members of militia groups and wounded several others during clashes Sunday west of the town of Malakal. Over…
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continue readingThe United Nations is bracing for what could be its biggest humanitarian challenge. As Iraqi and Kurdish forces move to liberate Iraq’s second-largest city from Islamic State fighters, the U.N.…
continue readingRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump ramped up his contention Monday that the U.S. election is rigged against him, saying that his party’s leaders are gullible to discount alleged voter fraud…
continue readingA Virginia man has pleaded guilty to trying to help Islamic State militants, and he faces up to 20 years in prison. The U.S. Justice Department said Haris Qamar, 26,…
continue readingTensions reached a boiling point in the Libyan capital Monday, as rival militia groups waged a low-level turf war in a political battle between the U.N.-backed “national unity” government of…
continue readingThe International Court of Justice is holding hearings on demands by Equatorial Guinea that France halt a corruption case against Teodorin Obiang, the vice president of the West African country…
continue readingPakistan has connected its new, largely Chinese-built nuclear reactor to the national grid as part of broader plans to overcome long-running crippling power shortages. The facility is located at Chashma,…
continue readingU.S.-backed Kurdish and Iraqi forces have begun a long-awaited offensive to liberate Iraq’s second largest city from Islamic State militants. VOA’s Kawa Omar reports from near Mosul, Iraq. …
continue readingThe son of a Russian oil executive has avoided prison for his part in a frenzied car chase with police that spawned a viral video showing him and a group…
continue readingThe son of a Russian oil executive has avoided prison for his part in a frenzied car chase with police that spawned a viral video showing him and a group…
continue readingAround 40 women staged a protest in Makhachkala, demanding answers about their missing relatives. (RFE/RL’s North Caucasus Service) …
continue readingLithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said the European Union should consider further sanctions on Russia due to its actions in Syria. In an interview on the sidelines of an EU…
continue readingLithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius has urged the European Union to adopt more sanctions against Russia in response to its air strikes against Syrian rebel-held civilian districts of Aleppo. …
continue readingFormer Azerbaijani Health Minister Ali Insanov, 70, was detained just days before the end of an 11-year prison term after a conviction on charges of bribery, embezzlement and economic crimes…
continue readingA former orderly at a Russian psychiatric hospital is facing threats and intimidation after he complained to the authorities about rampant abuse, even torture, at the facility. …
continue readingRussian media reports that a commander of Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has been killed by an explosion in his apartment building in Donetsk. Arseny Pavlov, a Russian citizen who…
continue readingBosnia’s Central Election Commission has confirmed that results from local elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina show a Bosnian Serb has been elected as the mayor of Srebrenica for the first time since…
continue readingRussian air strikes in Syria have killed four times as many civilians as the U.S.-led coalition in about half the length of time, says the director of the London-based monitor…
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