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With reporters on the ground, conversations with politicians and officials, and breakdowns of what's going on, we'll bring you everything you need to know about the Russian invasion of Ukrai...

Senior career diplomats at the U.S. State Department are effectively being forced into retirement. It’s a loss of talent that one former dip...

The U.S military has begun an operation to end Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in an effort and re-open the waterway to global shipp...

From fuel to food, fertilizer and flights, the fallout from the Iran war is reshaping the global economy. We hear from reporters in Africa,...

After more than two years of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the destruction there is overwhelming. According to the United Nations, m...

In today’s episode, a rare interview with the leader of a Hindu nationalist group in India known by the acronym RSS. They are the largest fa...

The relationship between the United States and Cuba hasn’t been this tense for decades. Even as the the U.S. is engaged in high-level negoti...

Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear accident in history. T...

India has seen a rise in Hindu nationalism in recent years, in it’s politics but also in the culture. And India’s famed Bollywood film indus...

Since the war with Iran began Ukraine has found itself in an unexpected position. In addition to receiving military aid, it is also a provid...

Just before a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was set to expire, President Trump announced on social media that he was extending it. Ira...

We mark this moment in both Gaza and Israel. In Gaza, it has been six months since major hostilities with Israel ended. Aid for the territor...

As the end of a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran approaches, a separate but intertwined conflict may have an improved chance at...

The war in Gaza has hardened positions across the Middle East. But two men say it brought them closer together and convinced them that the "...

For 25 years, ethnic Koreans who called Japan home were lured by propaganda to North Korea. Over 90,000 people heeded the call. They were pr...

What began as a power struggle between the army and the powerful paramilitary force — former allies in a coup that removed a civilian govern...

After U.S.-backed Iraqi and Syrian forces defeated ISIS, its surviving fighters went to prison. Their wives and children were sent to detent...

In 2024, Israel killed Hezbollah's top leaders and is thought to have decimated its arsenal. So how is the Iran-backed group still firing ro...

Ukraine has been a country living through war for more than four years, since Russia’s full-scale invasion. But the experience of that war v...

Weapons evolve over the course of a war, and for the war in Ukraine the use of drones has radically altered the battlefield. But those same...

President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, just ahead of a deadline he imposed for the country to open the Strait of Hormuz o...

One Moscow poet is making rare criticism of the Russian war on Ukraine. The Russian assault on Ukraine is now in its fifth year. For ordinar...

When a 9,000 year-old grave of a shaman was discovered in 1930s Germany, the discovery was quickly politicized to support Nazi propaganda. B...

It’s been three months since the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. Ordinary Venezuelans reflect on what that night of the Maduro capture...

Israel has invaded Lebanon as the war in Iran expands in the region. Israel says the move is in pursuit of Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters— H...

On Monday, President Trump threatened to destroy civilian infrastructure across Iran, including the country’s desalination plants, vital for...

A conversation with an advocate for the regulation of Artificial Intelligence. He has thought a lot about what it could mean for the future...

For almost a month now, a twenty-eight-year old Iranian writer in Tehran has been sharing her diary entries with NPR. The entries give us a...

It’s been a month since the U.S. and Israel began the war on Iran. President Trump pointed to what he said has been progress in talks when h...

Southeast Asia is among the areas hardest hit by Iran’s cutoff of oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz, with many nations there almost e...

Britain’s upper house of parliament is known as the House of Lords and it’s has a lot of old traditions: powdered wigs, a gold throne, lawma...

After weeks of war with Iran, Israeli support for the conflict is high but waning. Israel has endured frequent airstrikes from Iran disrupti...

After days of brinkmanship, President Trump announces a sudden delay in threatened strikes on Iran’s power grid, citing “very good and produ...

Entering the Ukrainian town of Izium brings the odd sight of roads and sidewalks completely covered in wide stretches of overhead netting. I...

NPR has learned that mediators have quietly given Hamas a proposal to hand over all its weapons to ensure Gaza’s reconstruction. And Iran ha...

Unmanned drones are cheaper than missiles, easy to mass-produce, can travel long distances, and strike with precision. For all these reasons...

Israel says it has killed two top Iranian leaders in airstrikes, dealing another blow to Iran’s remaining leadership. One of the men was bel...

Ever since the U.S. and Israel launched a war on Iran, oil prices have been on a rollercoaster but overall have been trending higher. An inc...

Understanding exactly what is happening inside Iran is difficult. The government rarely gives visas to western journalists and closely monit...

Five months ago, President Trump declared ceasefire in Gaza, having negotiated a deal that includes phased Israeli withdrawal from the terri...

In southern Lebanon, Hezbollah militants backed by Iran have been firing rockets at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s war in Iran. And Isra...

Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine recently passed the four year mark. And over that time it has become the deadlies...

As we enter the second week of U.S. combat operations in Iran, NPR’s Leila Fadel considers the similarities and differences with the last ti...

A week ago, the U.S. and Israel began airstrikes on Iran, killing the regime’s leader and starting a war that has now threatens to to expand...

A panel of clerics in Iran are meeting to decide on the next leader of the fundamentalist regime after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in...

New details are emerging about the bombing of a girls’ school in southeastern Iran that killed 165 people, many of them students, according...

Days after Israeli and U.S. air strikes killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israel said it had targeted the building where...

The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran continue. Meanwhile Iran is retaliating, firing missiles Israel, but also U.S. allies in the Gulf like...

In an attack the Pentagon has called “Operation Epic Fury”, the United States along with Israel launched a major strike on Iran bombing site...

Cambodia and neighboring Laos have become centers for stealing money via bogus investment opportunities, romance scams and other online cons...

It is a war for control over some of the world’s richest mineral reserves and the violence is heightened by long-standing ethnic and politic...