Living next to the Chinese-owned Zijin mines, villagers near Bor in eastern Serbia and Panjakent in western Tajikistan face ...

Ukrainian officials have rejected Russian accusations that Kyiv is stalling the exchange of prisoners of war and the ...

Iran’s state media has reported what it describes as one of the largest intelligence operations in history against Israel, ...

Villages near Bor in Serbia and Panjakent in Tajikistan share a growing concern: pollution from Chinese-owned mines. While Belgrade and Dushanbe welcome Beijing’s investment, locals fear for their ...

Russia unleashed a massive overnight assault on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in what local officials are calling ...

Russia unleashed a massive overnight assault on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, in what has been described as the most powerful attack there since the start of the war in 2022. Barrages across ...

For some Kyrgyz citizens, an offer of $4,000 per month for a job in Russia might seem too good to pass up. But those promises are used to recruit foreigners into Russia’s drug trade. Kyrgyz who take ...

Across the Kyrgyz capital, posters have appeared offering tempting job opportunities in Russia. RFE/RL contacted one of these "employers" -- who openly admitted the work involved drugs.