A court in Astana on October 18 sentenced Kazakh journalist Daniyar Adilbekov to 4 1/2 years in prison on charges of making ...

Iranian border guards fired on and killed Afghan migrants seeking to cross into Iran from Pakistan, according to local ...

Speaking to RFE/RL's Georgian Service from prison, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has warned of dire ...

It's election season in Eastern Europe, and for the Kremlin -- bogged down in Ukraine and desperately in need of allies -- ...

Ukrainians had mixed reactions after army recruiters raided nightclubs and restaurants looking for men to replenish the ...

U.S. Undersecretary of State Uzra Zeya has arrived in Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian officials, the U.S. Embassy to Kyiv said on October 18 on X, adding that the visit is meant "to reaffirm the ...

De facto authorities in Moldova's Transdniester have pledged not to obstruct the access of voters from the Russian-backed separatist region to polling stations amid concerns that Moscow will attempt ...

South Korea claims Pyongyang began moving special forces to Russia earlier this month, days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a similar accusation that North Korea has sent soldiers ...

Kyrgyzstan's Emergencies Ministry announced on October 18 the recovery of the body of one victim from an avalanche site in the southwestern district of Chatkal, while the search continues for five ...

Russia has been enlisting Central Asian prisoners to fight in Ukraine, throwing them on the frontline with limited military training. Some were lured with enticements, but many others faced torture ...

Struggling to increase manpower at the front as Russian forces advance and concerns about the future of Western support mount, Ukrainian recruiters have raided concerts, clubs, and cafes looking for ...

Increasingly oppressive conditions inside Russian prisons are driving desperate inmates to enlist in the military to fight in Ukraine. Speaking to RFE/RL from behind bars in Russia, a Kyrgyz inmate ...