Charles Recknagel is standards editor for RFE/RL.
Islamic State owes its battlefield success to suicide bombers, extreme brutality, and a continuing flow of new recruits.
There is supposed to be a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine. So why is there so much fighting around Donetsk airport?
Just days after a crowd in Kharkiv pulled down a massive statue of Lenin, body parts from the statue are for sale in Ukraine. Who is selling them, and why?
A group of six internationally-known Iranian filmmakers have started an Internet campaign urging Tehran and world powers to reach a deal to end the crisis over Tehran's nuclear program.
The new U.S.-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement sets forth the conditions under which some American soldiers will remain in Afghanistan beyond the end of this year. Here are five things to know about its contents.
Five things to know about the new U.S.-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement that sets forth the conditions for some American soldiers to remain in Afghanistan beyond this year.
Is the Islamic State extremist group expanding to Afghanistan and Pakistan? The possibility is growing as some militants in the region are pledging allegiance to the organization's leadership.
There are ever more signs Western sanctions are squeezing the Russian government: from the falling ruble to a widening search for cash to prop up state companies.
Iran is not part of the international coalition against Islamic State militants. But it is waging a war of its own with the group that is likely to overlap with the U.S.-led effort in unpredictable ways.
Various Middle Eastern and European countries are expected to join the U.S.-led coalition to roll back Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. We look at who they are and what they will do.
Syria's conflict began as a revolution against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Now the country is the arena for multiple wars, with the U.S. plan to roll back Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria adding only the latest level of complexity.
Semifailed state with polarized politics? A Bosnia-style solution sounds good to the Kremlin's ears when discussing Ukraine's future.
Russia's state news agency, ITAR-TASS, has rebranded itself, not by moving forward with something new but by traveling back to something old: its Soviet-era name, TASS.
Moscow's ban on food imports isn't just punishing the West for sanctions, it is also punishing Russian consumers with higher prices. We look at how the bans hurt Russians most.
Ebola is ravaging parts of West Africa but virologists say it is unlikely to spread rapidly across the globe as many other epidemics have.
The combined U.S. and EU sanctions over Ukraine will put severe strains on Russia's economy, with effects that could last for years. We look at how and where they will hurt most.
As the world's attention focuses on the sad task of burying the dead, the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine remains unsecured and barely open to investigators. That could make it increasingly difficult to ever prove decisively what brought the plane down.
When Mosul's Christians fled for their lives, their once vibrant and centuries-old community scattered to the winds. Who were Mosul's Christians?
Ukraine's pro-Russia separatists say they won't give up Donetsk, their largest stronghold, without a fight. Now they are digging in for battle.
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