Turkey says its Akinci drone deserves more credit for helping to locate the wreckage of the Iranian helicopter that crashed in a remote and mountainous area of Iran on May 19, killing President Ebrahim Raisi and other top Iranian officials, according to Turkish media reports on May 22.
Two pro-Russian paramilitary organizations operating in Bulgaria should be closed because their activities violate the constitution, a Bulgarian district prosecutor’s office said on May 22.
The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry said on May 22 that six Kyrgyz and four foreign citizens had been detained on suspicion of being involved in a brawl that sparked mob attacks on foreign students in Bishkek, triggering a mass exodus of Pakistani students from the Central Asian nation.
U.S. lawmakers are preparing to submit legislation to persuade Georgia's ruling party to kill a controversial "foreign agent" bill in exchange for trade, visa, and economic benefits -- or else face sanctions.
As thousands attended a funeral procession in Tehran, new images and an official account of the final flight of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi have emerged. Raisi and seven others died when their helicopter crashed in northwestern Iran on May 19.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants for Israel and Hamas leaders for war crimes. Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union. How likely is it to happen? What happens next? And what does it mean for the conflict in Gaza?
Students continue to return to Pakistan following anti-foreigner mob violence in Bishkek on the night of May 17-18. Speaking with RFE/RL at the Allamam Iqbal Airport in Lahore, two returnees said they had run out of food after spending days locked inside their rooms in the Kyrgyz capital.
The trial of independent Kazakh journalist Duman Mukhammedkarim, who is accused of financing an extremist group and participating in a banned group's activities, resumed on May 22 after a pause of more than 100 days.
Russia has withdrawn without explanation a Defense Ministry draft that proposed revising Moscow's maritime border in the eastern Baltic Sea and expanding its territorial waters that raised the ire of littoral NATO members Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, and Estonia.
In the once-pristine village of Shala in central Kosovo, a stone quarry has turned the once serene landscapes into a dust-filled wasteland, endangering the health and safety of its residents.
Kyrgyz activist Askat Jetigen, known for his criticism of the Central Asian nation's government, went on trial on May 22 on a charge of calling for mass unrest. He rejects the charges, calling them politically motivated.
The Memorial human rights group on May 22 recognized Bashkir activist Fail Alsynov as a political prisoner.
A man accused of throwing two Molotov cocktails over the fence of the Russian Embassy in Chisinau on March 17, the day of Russia's presidential election, has been sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid community service.
The Serbian government has signed a 99-year lease allowing a company owned by Jared Kushner to turn a former Yugoslav Army headquarters in Belgrade into commercial space. Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, has released few details about the project, but some in Belgrade are questioning the propriety of offices and residences being built into a structure bombed by NATO in 1999 and designated as a monument.
The Pentagon has said Russia "likely" deployed an anti-satellite weapon in space earlier this month, a claim quickly rejected by Moscow.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on May 21 that the former deputy governor of the Kalman district in the Siberian region of Altai Krai, Vitaly Manishin, will face trial over the deaths of 11 women.
After a high-profile state visit to Beijing that had few concrete takeaways, can Putin and Xi lay the foundations for a partnership that will last for “generations to come”?
Crowds gathered in Tehran on May 22 to attend funeral ceremonies for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials killed in a helicopter crash on May 19.