A Ukrainian platform that shares captured Russian and North Korean military hardware for “destructive testing” and other research has granted access to 376 foreign companies and agencies since its launch, RFE/RL has learned.

Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan has been the scene of a spate of militant attacks in the past month. What’s behind the violence in one of Iran’s poorest regions?

Christopher Walker, vice president of the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis, speaks to RFE/RL Senior International Correspondent Ray Furlong in Prague on October 14.

Ukrainian forces have struck an oil refinery in Russia's Ryazan region, Russian officials said, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine would resume attacks on Russian energy facilities and voiced anger over a "dangerous" disruption of satellite intelligence from the United States.

Russia is deepening diplomatic and military cooperation with Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, driven by security concerns in Central Asia. But worsening Taliban-Pakistan tensions and questions over the scope of Moscow's assistance are complicating the rapprochement.