Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
Pakistani paramilitary Rangers say "suspected militants" set fire to 27 tankers overnight that were carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
The Afghan government is pushing forward with plans to arm and pay militia fighters as local police in their home districts. But experts warn that the so-called Local Police Initiative could strengthen the power of warlords or plant the seeds of future conflict between rival Afghan tribes.
Pope Benedict XVI has taken his campaign to revive Christianity in an increasingly secular Europe to Britain. But the pontiff faces a difficult task in a country where many oppose his policies and where there is growing anger over church sex-abuse scandals.
A threat by a Christian pastor in Florida to burn copies of the Holy Koran on September 11 -- an act considered blasphemous across much of the Muslim world -- has kindled global debate about blasphemy and the limitations of free speech.
Afghan authorities try to contain an escalating crisis at the country's largest privately owned bank.
Ordered by Kabul to resign, Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States says that while it's normal for him to step down after so long at the post, he's complained of a "smear campaign" against him in Afghanistan.
Salman Ahmad has declared what he calls "rock and roll jihad" against religious extremists in Pakistan who claim that music is un-Islamic. As one of Pakistan's most successful rock musicians, Ahmad sees the dispute as a struggle for the future of culture in his country.
Afghanistan's president has banned all private security firms from his country -- regardless of whether they are international companies or Afghan firms.
The release of classified U.S. military reports about the war in Afghanistan by the online whistle-blower WikiLeaks is fueling debates about the balance between journalism, national security, and the right of the public to know.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has been carrying out a threat to launch attacks within Turkish cities following the deployment of Turkish forces along the border with Iraq -- where PKK militants have established hideouts.
From the perspective of four Uzbek women who are hiding in a basement amid the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, those who have reached the increasingly restive border area with Uzbekistan are the fortunate ones.
Afghanistan's mineral riches are much greater than previously thought. That's according to an updated U.S. study -- reported in "The New York Times" -- that shows the country has substantial deposits of iron, copper, gold, and lithium. Afghan officials hope the research will bring a fresh wave of foreign investment that could alter the entire economy.
A UN court has sentenced two former Bosnian Serb army officers to life in prison on genocide charges for their role in the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys near Srebrenica in July 1995. The ruling is seen as setting an important precedent for the ongoing trial of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic.
A Pakistani court has blocked all Facebook and YouTube pages in a dispute over an online campaign against Islamic extremists who issue death threats for depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Iraqi politicians and officials have agreed to stop disqualifying candidates for having ties to the party of former leader Saddam Hussein, but an appeals court will determine the election outcome by ruling on whether nine candidates will be reinstated.
As the Balkan countries join Europe in marking 65 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, many people there now appear to be rejecting ex-Yugoslavia's history of antifascism.
Thirty years after the death of Josip Broz Tito, nostalgia is running high in the former Yugoslavia for life under the communist leader.
A Russian defense manufacturer is marketing a highly mobile missile system that could be hidden in a standard cargo container, but has downplayed concerns that such an easily concealed weapon could become a tool of terrorists.
As an extradition case continues in London against Bosnian Muslim wartime leader Ejup Ganic, his supporters have criticized Sarajevo for failing to investigate and resolve Serbia's allegations of war crimes against him, which the UN's war crimes tribunal called for seven years ago.
The ghosts of the Bosnian war have been awakened in the past week by the genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic and the arrest in Britain of Bosniak wartime leader Ejup Ganic on an extradition request from Serbia. Both cases have rekindled bitter arguments between Serbs and Bosniaks over events in Sarajevo at the start of the Bosnian war.
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