Serbs flocked to vote at a record pace in parliamentary elections today, with a pro-Western alliance led by President Boris Tadic running neck-and-neck with the nationalist Radical Party. The vote is seen as crucial as it could decide whether the
Not allowed to sing in Iran about the harsh treatment of women in society, the Iranian rap group Tapesh 2012 (Pulse 2012) is doing just that -- from its base in Germany. The group's latest song, "Ma Mard Nistim" ("We
Several times this year, the United States has sought to rally its allies in the Arab world against what it calls Iran's continued meddling in the region.
Missile carriers rumbled across Moscow's Red Square and war planes roared overhead as Russia celebrated the 63rd anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.
Serbia holds parliamentary elections on May 11 that are touted as crucial in determining the future of a country still deeply divided between European and nationalist, pro-Russian ambitions. On the eve of that vote, Gordana Knezevic, director of RFE/RL's South
In Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan Province, Sharifa feeds rice and bread to her nieces and nephews. The six children are orphans who were left in Sharifa's care when her sister died.
MITROVICA -- Violinist Gezim Latifi, like most ethnic Albanians, was flush with optimism in the days immediately preceding Kosovar authorities' February declaration of independence from Serbia. To celebrate, the Pristina resident took the stage as part of the Kosovo Philharmonic
Serbian nationalists narrowly missed victory in the country's presidential elections at the start of the year. Now, as Serbs prepare to go to the polls yet again, for early parliamentary elections on May 11, the nationalists have worked hard to
The White House has urged Iran and Syria to stop their support of Hizballah following three days of clashes between government and opposition supporters in Lebanon that left at least 18 people dead.
Tensions are as high as they have been in 15 years over Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, where "frozen" conflict has given way to heated rhetoric, the downing of Georgian spy drones, and thinly veiled threats. The most serious verbal
An ethnic Serbian family in Kosovo says independence is absurd and they will never accept it. They miss the days before the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
An Albanian family in Kosovo talks of their happiness since Pristina declared Kosovo's independence in February and what life was like under Serbian leadership.
One half of the city of Mitrovica, in northern Kosovo, is Serbian and the other is Albanian. Almost three months ago, Kosovo proclaimed its independence from Serbia, and the aftermath has left one side jubilant and the other side angry.
The official line on the transfer of power in Russia is continuity. Incoming Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his successor in the presidency, Dmitry Medvedev, have stressed that they are like-minded leaders who are ready to work together under the
After a two month lull in the violence that has plagued Pakistan's border regions, Islamist militants appear to have resumed the violence when a recent suicide-bomb attack in the northwestern city of Bannu killed five.
MOSCOW -- Russia's State Duma has confirmed Vladimir Putin as prime minister by an overwhelming vote of 392 to 56, just one day after Dmitry Medvedev succeeded him as the country's president.
A Sunni Arab tribal leader in restive Diyala Governorate announced this week that tribal fighters obtained Al-Qaeda records documenting the names of 6,000 suicide bombers who have carried out attacks in Iraq since the fall of the Hussein regime.
BAGHDAD -- U.S. troops and Shi'ite militants are clashing daily in Baghdad's volatile Al-Sadr City as fighters tied to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr try to stop, or at least delay, construction of a 5-kilometer barrier to keep them from firing
