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How a municipal committee led by the future Russian president backed a plan to hawk a fake chemical compound with supposed nuclear applications.

Protests over the deadly collapse of a building in Abadan, Iran flexes its muscles with the seizure of Greek oil tankers, and a jailed Iranian-American businessman accuses Tehran of hypocrisy.

Russian troops are “incrementally” gaining territory in the Donbas as they seek to overwhelm Ukrainian defense forces with artillery bombardments. Will new Western weapons supplies make a difference?  

A group of activists in Lithuania has negotiated with the Defense Ministry and raised more than 6 million dollars from ordinary citizens in just three days to purchase a Turkish-made Bayraktar attack drone for the Ukrainian military.

The Russian government has begun easing limits on pollutants that can be released into the aquifer of Siberia's unique Lake Baikal, which holds 20 percent of the world's freshwater, saying Western sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine have scuttled the previous cleanup plan.

Washington has agreed to supply Ukraine with a powerful rocket artillery system. Here's how the weapon works, and why its full power will not be available to Kyiv.

Videos and images published on social media show that a high concrete wall and security cameras are being constructed around an Iranian cemetery believed to hold the remains of victims of the Islamic republic's mass killing of political prisoners in 1988.

Officials including Prime Minister Kiril Petkov channel local resentment to relocate Ukrainian families away from the Bulgarian Riviera, baffling displaced victims of Russia's invasion and prompting some to return home despite the risks.

A digital camera retrieved by fighters in eastern Ukraine holds images of one family in peacetime and the invading Russian soldiers that apparently looted the device.

Exiled Iranian actress Zar Amir-Ebrahimi won the Best Actress award at Cannes Film Festival for her role as a journalist in the film Holy Spider. In an interview with RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, she opened up about her struggles in exile and the importance of exposing problems in her homeland.