A rare collection of color images made by a European woman who traveled throughout Iran as modernization and political upheavals forever changed the country.
In Afghanistan's Panjshir Province, former police officers and soldiers scrape together a living by digging emeralds out of the frigid Hindu Kush Mountains.
With freezing temperatures hardening the ground and a lack of foliage, midwinter is considered an optimal time for military action -- a fear shared by Ukrainian soldiers and civilians near the front lines in the east as Russia masses more than 100,000 troops around the country's borders.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the fourth week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region.
After thousands of "weaponized" migrants massed on the border with Belarus and neighboring EU countries in 2021, Poland is moving ahead with a controversial barrier.
Russia holds military drills near Ukraine's border, a FEMEN activist protests the military registration of women, and a National Guardsman shoots dead five people in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region amid ongoing tensions in and around Ukraine.
The latest images from agency photographers in and around Ukraine capture the mood on the ground as military brinksmanship between Russia, and Ukraine and the West continues.
Two of Ukraine's most experienced combat photojournalists spoke to RFE/RL about the atmosphere along the line of contact in the Donbas as fears for an all-out Russian invasion mount.
Fresh images capture the increasingly tense line of contact between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, as well as Russian maneuvers near the Ukrainian border and preparations related to the crisis taking place far from the front line.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the third week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region.
Amid fears of a major new conflict with Russia, Ukrainians honor those killed in the infamous 2014-2015 battles for Donetsk International Airport.
A winter storm hurled valuable chunks of fossilized tree resin onto a beach in Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, sparking a rush to collect the "Baltic gold."
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