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Germany Tells Russia Threats Are 'Unacceptable' After Arms Makers List Published Germany became the second country to condemn Moscow over the publication of a list of companies Russia claimed are helping produce attack drones for Ukraine, warning that "direct threats" are "unacceptable."

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Wary Of Hormuz Instability, Eurasian Logistics Look To Middle Corridor While diplomatic efforts struggle to stabilize access to the Strait of Hormuz amid tensions between the United States and Iran, Eurasian trade is increasingly being redirected toward overland alternatives, with the Middle Corridor emerging as a key diversification route in Eurasian logistics.

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US Lawmakers Move To Target Chinese, Russian Influence In Georgia US Congressman Joe Wilson says Georgia has become a front line in the global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, jointly introducing new legislation to assess Russian and Chinese influence while pressing Tbilisi for free and fair elections.

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Thomas De Waal: Iran War Could Complicate Trump's Caucasus Corridor Plan Armenia says a flagship US-backed transport project is moving from concept to reality. But as TRIPP enters its implementation phase, escalating tensions with Iran could quickly slow progress -- raising security risks and deterring investors, senior Caucasus analyst Thomas de Waal told RFE/RL.

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US Fires Upon, Seizes Iranian Ship, While Outlook For Peace Talks Uncertain US forces have fired at and seized an Iranian-flagged ship in the Gulf of Oman that was attempting to evade a US maritime blockade, President Donald Trump and the Pentagon said on April 19, while Iran's military command angrily threatened to retaliate.

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US Quietly Renews Russian Oil Waiver Amid Market Turmoil, Policy Confusion The United States has again temporarily eased sanctions on Russian oil, issuing a new waiver that allows certain shipments already at sea to be delivered and sold, even as Washington publicly insists it is maintaining pressure on the Kremlin.

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Russian Lawyer Who Lashed Out At Putin Released From Mental Hospital Ilya Remeslo, a longtime pro-Kremlin blogger who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after abruptly directing strongly worded criticism at Russian President Vladimir Putin, says he has been released after a month in the facility in St. Petersburg.

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Iran Declares Strait Of Hormuz Open; Trump Says US Blockade Of Iranian Ports Remains In Place Iran said it has opened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping traffic for the reamiiner of a 10-day cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon, and US President Donald Trump again suggested that Washington and Tehran could reach a deal to end the US-Israeli war with Iran in the near future.

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US Lawmaker Wilson Flags Western Chips Still Flowing Into Russian, Iranian Drones A senior Republican lawmaker has raised concerns over continued US-origin components appearing in Russian weapon systems amid Ukrainian reports that recent drone strikes show evidence of Western microelectronics manufactured as recently as 2025.

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In Photos: Week Seven Of The Iran War Prayers for peace, cease-fires, and an ongoing energy crisis dominated the seventh week of the conflict in the Middle East.

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Czechs Demand Explanation After Russia's Medvedev Threatens Europe's Drone Factories The Czech Republic demanded an explanation after Russia’s Defense Ministry published a list of companies it claimed are helping produce attack drones for Ukraine and bellicose former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called it “a list of potential targets” for the Russian military.

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Dozens Detained During Easter Gatherings in Turkmenistan Easter celebrations in the western Turkmen city of Balkanabat were overshadowed by a coordinated security operation near the only Christian church, with dozens of local Turkmen converts detained during Catholic and Orthodox services.

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Russian Influencers Turn From Cosmetics To Politics, But Don't Mention The War Russian influencer Victoria Bonya made a personal address to Russian President Vladimir Putin: In a country where political debate and criticism of the authorities is tightly controlled, she brought up problems people face in their everyday lives. Except the war in Ukraine.

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Lebanon 'Not Aware' Of Trump-Promised Peace Talks With Israel The United States and Israel say Israeli and Lebanese leaders will speak on April 16, but Beirut says it has not been informed of any planned talks.

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Iran Sentences Four More To Death Over Mass Protests, Rights Groups Say Iran has sentenced four more protesters, including a woman, to death over mass demonstrations in January, according to two human rights groups.

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Trump Says Peace Talks Could Resume Soon As US Military Chokes Iran's Maritime Trade US President Donald Trump suggested that peace talks with Iran could resume in a day or two as the US military chokes off the country's maritime trade in a move to get Tehran to the negotiating table.

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Deadly Russian Attacks Persist As Ukraine Bolsters Defense Ties With Germany And Norway Russian attacks killed five people in the frequently targeted city of Dnipro and a child in Cherkasy on April 14, Ukrainian authorities said, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy received promises of further support from Germany and Norway.

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Toll Booths and Tankers: How the US Navy and Economic Sanctions Aim To Squeeze Tehran RFE/RL spoke with Max Meizlish, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former official at the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, on the intersection of naval blockades and financial warfare as Washington halts traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

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This American Was Abducted in Kabul in 2022. His Family Is Desperately Waiting For News. Mahmood Shah Habibi’s daughter hasn’t seen her father since she was 11 months old. That was in 2022, when the American was abducted in Kabul and detained by the Taliban’s intelligence agency, US officials say. “We have had no news of his fate for four years,” his mother told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi.

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No Breakthrough: Vance Leaves Pakistan as US, Iran Talks Collapse Following Marathon Session Marathon talks aimed at halting the war in Iran collapsed without a breakthrough, as US Vice President JD Vance flew back to the United States amid major questions what comes next for 43-day-old conflict.

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Landon Derentz: Markets Expect Quick Off-Ramp From Iran War RFE/RL spoke with Landon Derentz, former White House energy director during the first Trump administration and now vice president for energy and infrastructure at the Atlantic Council, about how global energy markets are interpreting the war with Iran -- and what may come next.

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America's Arab Allies Face Stark Choice In Iran War US allies in the Persian Gulf have borne the brunt of Iran’s retaliation to the US-Israeli bombing campaign of the Islamic republic. Now, they are considering whether to directly enter the fight against Tehran.

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US And Iran Push Competing Peace Plans As Fighting Rages Iran appears to have dismissed a 15-point US plan to end the war that has spilled across the Gulf and roiled global energy markets.

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Fred Fleitz: US May Strike Iran’s Energy Infrastructure If Talks Fail Fred Fleitz, vice chair of the America First Policy Institute’s Center for American Security, told RFE/RL he is “cautiously optimistic” about possible US-Iran talks on ending the war but said Washington is reinforcing its military position to pressure Tehran into a deal.

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Yale Report Links Russian Energy Giants To Deportation, Indoctrination Of Ukrainian Children A new report by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab alleges that Russian state-linked energy giants Gazprom and Rosneft were directly involved in the transfer and political indoctrination of thousands of Ukrainian children,

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Ukraine Hits Russia's Ports Again, As Fighting Intensifies Amid Stalled Peace Talks Two Russian major ports were pounded by drones over three days as Moscow and Kyiv continued to exchange hundreds of air strikes, marking a spike in fighting as peace talks appear to be stalling despite Ukraine's attempt to revive the issue in Florida last week.

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Afghan Taliban Says Releases US Citizen After Plea From Mother Afghanistan's Taliban government announced the release and Dennis Coyle, a US citizen held for more than a year, after his mother plead for a pardon on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

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Pakistan Steps Forward As Future 'Host' In Iran Diplomacy Pakistan has offered to host talks aimed at bringing the Iran conflict to an end, highlighting the country's strengthened ties in both the Middle East and with Washington.

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Iran Fires Missiles At Israel, Kuwait Despite Reports Of Diplomatic Push Iran launched attacks on Israel and Kuwait less than a day after US President Donald Trump announced "very good and productive" talks toward an agreement to end the war with Tehran, now in its fourth week.

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Bipartisan Backlash Grows As Trump Administration Expands Russian Sanctions Relief US lawmakers are raising concerns after the Trump administration took additional steps to allow more Russian oil shipments to reach global markets despite existing sanctions.

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