- Radio Free Iraq – Weekly Magazine

The 1995 genocide in Srebrenica must be globally condemned, support for victims must be expressed, and denial of genocide and glorification of war criminals be banned to prevent future similar tragedies, two members of the tripartite presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina told a UN session on April 19.

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s two most-populous countries, have a lot to talk about these days, from security cooperation to deeper integration on trade and transit. That could be good for Central Asia, which has often proved divisible by outside powers. But it might be making […]

Russell Bentley, a U.S. national, has died in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in Ukraine, Margarita Simonyan, the head of Russia's state media outlet RT, wrote on Telegram on April 19.

Zarema Musayeva, the imprisoned mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists, has lost a bid for early release because of her medical condition after health officials in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya changed her diagnosis. 

A Russian Tu-22M3 long-range warplane crashed in Russia's southern Stavropol region on April 19. Ukraine's air force says it was the first time it had shot down a Tu-22M3. The Russian Defense Ministry said the crash was due to a technical malfunction.

With rare bipartisan momentum, the U.S. House of Representatives pushed ahead on April 19 on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend.

Ruben Vardanian, a former Russian citizen of Armenian descent who served as prime minister in the de facto government of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, has begun a hunger strike in a Baku prison, his family said on April 19.

Armenia has agreed to return four abandoned border villages that it has controlled since the early 1990s to Azerbaijan as the initial step in defining the frontier between the two bitter South Caucasus rivals, the countries said in identical statements on April 19.

In an interview with RFE/RL's Bulgarian Service, former Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov blamed the U.S.-sanctioned oligarch Delyan Peevski for the recent government collapse and said the influential politician was the " biggest evil in Bulgaria."

Podgorica residents have been exposed to dangerous toxins for years, thanks to the practices of nearby waste companies, who burn worn-out tires to extract metal wire from the treads. That releases dioxins, PCBs, carbon monoxide, and mercury into the air, putting neighbors at risk of serious health […]

Kazakhstan's Supreme Court said on April 19 that Judge Aizhan Qulbaeva -- who is presiding over the high-profile trial of former Kazakh Economy Minister Quandyq Bishimbaev -- has been provided with "personal security measures" after she received multiple threats.

Moscow theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk will face trial in a Russian military court after prosecutors affirmed charges of justifying terrorism.

A court in Belarus has sentenced a man to 3 1/2 years in prison for sending the equivalent of $32 to three Belarusian groups, which were labeled extremist and banned by authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka's regime

Should Iran choose to escalate its showdown with Israel, it has many arrows in its quiver -- including the element of surprise, more sophisticated weaponry, and even the threat of activating its nuclear weapons program.

Stanislav Aseyev, a former RFE/RL contributor, was held captive by Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine's Donbas region for 2 1/2 years. After being freed in a prisoner swap, he returned to writing and launched a foundation to investigate war crimes. But Aseyev decided that he could do the most […]

The Group of Seven (G7) nations have called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to remain “fully committed” to the peace process as the group’s foreign ministers issued a communique after their meeting in Capri, Italy, on April 19.

How two photojournalists accessed the world's offshore havens to visualize the issue of tax evasion.

Five Japanese nationals escaped a suicide bomb attack on their vehicle in Karachi on April 19 as police shot down a gunman accompanying the bomber, officials said.

The head of the European Union's executive branch said Finland's decision to close its border with Russia over a surge in migrants is a security matter for the whole 27-member bloc.

Ukrainian authorities announced that Russian aerial attacks had killed at least nine people in the Dnipropetrovsk region early on April 19. Most of the casualties were in the city of Synelnykove. In the regional center, Dnipro, a five-story residential building in the downtown area caught fire […]