A team of volunteers and their highly trained dogs have become a vital part of Ukraine's war effort, searching for the living and retrieving the dead from buildings destroyed by Russian strikes.
The cleanup has started at the Kon-Tiki motel, a famous prewar gathering place for Sarajevo residents. The place was turned into a prison camp for Bosniaks and Croats during the war in the 1990s.
A large-scale artwork depicting a 1920 Polish victory over invading Red Army forces in a church in northwestern Belarus has been painted over by the authorities after pro-government media criticized the historic mural.
Bomb shelters from the Soviet era have replaced the homes of villagers who were caught up in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
More than 2,100 Pakistani police personnel have been killed and 7,000 injured since 2001, but never have they been the target of militants' operations to the degree they are today.
After supply chains from China were disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, Bosnian furniture manufacturers edged into the luxury European market.
Recent vandalism of a famous column to the Red Army in central Sofia is the latest in a string of symbolic anti-Kremlin attacks on the memorial.
A photojournalist from the Associated Press was there as Ukrainian Army medics treated wounded soldiers as they were brought from the battlefield to a field hospital near Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region on February 26.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the eighth week of 2023 from around RFE/RL's region.
Drone footage captures the devastated, war-torn landscape of Bakhmut and Maryinka from above as intense fighting continues in eastern Ukraine.
Through a year of full-scale war, images of prisoners of war being released to return to their families offer rare moments of joy among the misery of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Photojournalist Serhiy Nuzhnenko of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has spent a year covering the war in his country. To mark a year since Russia's full-scale invasion, he compiled this collection of his most powerful photos.
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