A border crossing between Iran and Armenia was flooded with people on June 17 as high numbers of Iranians sought to escape ...

With Israeli air strikes showing no signs of slowing after five days, thousands are fleeing Tehran, creating traffic jams and ...

A wounded Ukrainian soldier has just been carried in to a medical stabilization point close to the front line in Ukraine's ...

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I am drilling down on two issues: Globsec’s big forum in Prague last ...

With the world's attention focused on the escalating conflict in the Middle East, Russia struck Ukraine overnight on June ...

Working from a makeshift "stabilization point," Ukrainian military medics work fast to provide emergency care for the wounded, treating both soldiers and local civilians in the Sumy region. The area, ...

A survivor captured video of a deadly Russian air strike on Odesa on June 17, ducking for cover as the attack drone landed nearby, engulfing a residential building in a fireball. RFE/RL's Ukrainian ...

Russia unleashed a massive missile and drone attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least 14 people ...

Residential areas in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, were hammered by a massive Russian missile and drone attack on June 16-17, killing at least 14 people and wounding 55.

Israel said it launched "extensive" attacks on targets in western Iran while air raid sirens screamed across Tehran as US ...

You are listening to the audio version of the Wider Europe newsletter, published on June 17, 2025, read by an AI-generated voice of RFE/RL's Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak.

Russia is purposefully making it more difficult for Ukraine to identify repatriated remains by sending badly mutilated bodies ...