Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
Nine Afghan employees of a government development program, including a woman, have been killed by militants who attacked their guesthouse in a remote village of northern Afghanistan's Balkh Province.
A Washington-based think tank on international affairs has released a scathing report on Russia's "direct military intervention" in eastern Ukraine, concluding that President Vladimir Putin has led his country into war and has lied about it.
Russia is trying to attract Chinese tourists to Tatarstan's capital, Kazan, with a "red tour" of communism's historic sites -- bragging not only that Lenin once slept there, but was also expelled from university there as a young revolutionary.
Poland's surprise choice for president signals appetite for change and is almost certain to dent egos in Brussels, but Andrzej Duda has so far pressed for even deeper defense commitments from the West.
Numerous Kremlin opponents and critics have fallen ill from poisoning over the years, sometimes fatally, in circumstances that have raised suspicions of KGB-style assassinations. RFE/RL takes a look at various poisons thought to have been involved in prominent cases.
The fall of Ramadi to Islamic State (IS) militants has changed the way Iraq is trying to confront the Sunni-led extremists -- with Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia fighters being brought in to defend Sunni tribal lands.
Hamid Mir's reputation as one of Pakistan's most revered -- and loathed -- journalists has come into focus amid a public debate over who riddled his body with bullets.
Financial aid is sometimes delayed when donors are concerned about corruption. Here are five tips from antigraft watchdogs on how recipient countries can clean up their act.
Ukrainian troops in Crimea face a dilemma. Should they abandon their lives on the peninsula and move to an uncertain future on the Ukrainian mainland? Or should they become Russian citizens in order to stay?
A controversial Russian memorial plaque in a Prague cemetery has been removed after complaints that it honored the Soviet-led troops who invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Legal disputes between Kyiv and Moscow are bound to emerge in the days ahead over the legality of Crimea's expected secession and its annexation by Russia.
China's position on Russia's Crimea incursion is receiving attention ahead of an expected vote on a draft UN Security Council resolution that criticizes Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Officials in Kyiv have warned that Russian military forces are massing on Ukraine's borders "in an offensive manner" and suggested they could be preparing for an invasion in the country's east.
The Kremlin has stepped up efforts to win over Crimean Tatars ahead a referendum on March 16 on whether the Black Sea peninsula should become part of Russia.
Tatars in the central Crimean town of Bakhchysaray -- once the cultural center and seat of government for Crimean Tatars -- say their community is being intimidated by pro-Russia thugs who are trying to either scare them into fleeing the region, or to provoke a violent backlash.
The parliament in Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea has voted to join Russia as local officials announced a referendum to confirm the decision would be held in 10 days' time. How did the region coordinate efforts with Russian lawmakers in Moscow to facilitate the Kremlin's annexation of the strategic peninsula?
From former Soviet republics in the Baltics and Central Asia to the ex-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, there is renewed wariness about Russia as a result of the Kremlin's military incursion into Crimea.
There has been much speculation about Russian forces deployed in Crimea since February 28.
With tensions rising in Crimea and pro-Russian forces controlling the peninsula's main airports, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has called on Russia to "not violate the Budapest Memorandum." So what is the Budapest Memorandum and what does it have to do with Crimea?
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