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Byline: Miriam Berger A year ago, the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran's morality police sparked a popular uprising, led by women and young people, that [...]

Byline: Steve Hendrix and Niha Masih JERUSALEM - Israel launched extensive air and ground attacks on Jenin starting early Monday, striking what it called a militant 'operational command center' in [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck JERUSALEM - Israel's government faced crises on multiple fronts Saturday as far-right officials denounced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's response to this week's cross-border strikes and twin attacks [...]

Byline: Marisa Iati Peru's government extended a state of emergency in the country's capital and three other regions Sunday as President Dina Boluarte refused calls to resign amid anti-government protests [...]

Byline: Dan Balz The roots run deep that brought House Republicans to this week's demonstration of chaos and dysfunction. The problems have been building for years. Now they have been [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger Thousands of people poured into the streets of Mahsa Amini's hometown Wednesday and marched to her grave. Iranian security forces responded - as they have throughout the [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger and Sanam Mahoozi Security forces with heavy weapons roam the streets of Sanandaj, Kurdistan's provincial capital, in armored vehicles. They fire into the homes of terrified residents, [...]

Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh The shooting started in Zahedan before Friday prayers had ended. Thousands of worshipers had gathered on Sept. 30 in the Great Mosalla of Zahedan, a large open-air [...]

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Byline: Kareem Fahim In his first public comments on protests sweeping Iran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday characterized the unrest as 'rioting' instigated by foreign powers, including the [...]

Byline: Marina Lopes and Niha Masih Sri Lankan security forces raided a protest camp outside the presidential office early Friday, hours after the country's new leader was sworn in. At [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - As Sri Lanka emerged Thursday from days of street clashes and a military curfew, word spread that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had picked a [...]

Byline: Hafeel Farisz, Niha Masih and Gerry Shih COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - As hundreds of supporters of Sri Lanka's powerful Rajapaksa family stormed through the capital Monday, beating anti-government protesters [...]

Byline: Almaz Kumenov and Isabelle Khurshudyan ALMATY, Kazakhstan - For days, the streets of Kazakhstan's largest city smelled of burned rubber tinged with the acrid stench of stun grenades. Inside [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan MOSCOW - To Russian President Vladimir Putin, the collapse of the Soviet Union 'was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.' He made that statement in 2005, [...]

Byline: Claire Parker and Mary Ilyushina As protests spread in Kazakhstan, the focus shifted as well: beginning with outrage over price hikes for fuel and later taking aim at the [...]

Byline: Max Bearak NAIROBI, Kenya - For the third time in less than a month, hundreds of thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets of cities across the country [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Ana Vanessa Herrero When Cubans took to the streets in July for the biggest challenge to the communist state in decades, Michel Parra joined the electric [...]

Byline: Ana Vanessa Herrero Juan Esteban Torres left his home on the afternoon of May 18 to join an anti-government protest in Caldas, Colombia. Millions across the country had taken [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani The group of men from a quiet, rural town in Myanmar's hilly northwest often hunted birds and rabbits. But in late April, they turned their rifles on [...]

Byline: Kana Inata Pro-democracy rallies in Thailand gained steam for months until the government began arresting the protest leaders. Thousands of protesters, led by young activists, now want reforms to [...]

Byline: Steven Grattan and Anthony Faiola BOGOTA, Colombia - Hundreds of protesters had gathered in the southwestern Colombian city of Cali late Monday, pushing for economic justice on the sixth [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani and Andrew Nachemson Before dawn one day late last month, Win stuffed his belongings in the trunk, buckled his 14-year-old daughter in the back seat and, with [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor On Tuesday, protesters spilled metaphorical blood on the streets of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city. They sprayed and splashed red paint on roads, pavement and bus stops across [...]

Byline: Sudarsan Raghavan and Heba Farouk Mahfouz CAIRO - Deploying gangs of armed masked men and riot police, Egyptian security forces clamped down on central parts of Cairo on Friday, [...]

Byline: Tamer El-Ghobashy An emerging coalition of Algerian opposition figures Tuesday rejected President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's plan to remain in office while overseeing a political transition from his 20-year rule, echoing [...]

Byline: Sudarsan Raghavan CAIRO - Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Algiers on Friday to denounce Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's decision to run for a fifth [...]

Byline: Amie Ferris-Rotman MOSCOW - Armenia's pro-democracy movement ratcheted up the pressure on Wednesday with protesters blocking major roads and paralyzing parts of the country a day after the parliament [...]

Byline: Amie Ferris-Rotman MOSCOW - After weeks of protests, Armenia's parliament on Tuesday voted against making opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan its new prime minister, dealing a blow to the country's [...]

Byline: Amie Ferris-Rotman YEREVAN - Russia, which for more than a week has been an ever-present factor in the background as Armenian protesters thronged to the streets, is starting to [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung KIEV, Ukraine - Vice President Joe Biden abruptly canceled a wreath-laying ceremony Friday at a memorial marking Ukraine's pro-Western revolution after an angry crowd gathered to demand [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian and Michael Birnbaum MOSCOW - Ukraine accused Russia on Friday of supplying fresh military equipment and troops to pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, threatening the collapse of [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum LVIV, Ukraine - As eastern Ukraine's conflict has hardened and pro-Russian rebels look likely to hold their territory for years, Andriy Sokolev, a union leader in this [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum KIEV, Ukraine - Just months ago, Donetsk's airport was a gleaming testament to Ukraine's hopeful future. Now it is a dystopian burned-out hulk where intense fighting continues [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum KIEV, Ukraine - Marina Demko wants to build a stronger Ukraine if she wins a seat in her nation's landmark parliamentary elections Sunday. But she has one [...]

Byline: William Wan HONG KONG - On the eve of what could be the biggest turnout yet in Hong Kong's continuing protests, and a crucial test of wills on both [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Michael Birnbaum KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's president took advantage of a fragile cease-fire to tour a once-embattled port city Monday and tell backers that his forces [...]

Byline: Annie Gowen MARIUPOL, Ukraine - Since Monday, more than 200 Ukrainian volunteer soldiers have been trapped in the southeastern town of Ilyovaisk, surrounded by separatists they say have been [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum SHCHASTYA, Ukraine - Zhanna Sologub doesn't know if the rocket that struck the courtyard of her house this month was fired by pro-Russian rebels or Ukrainian government [...]

Byline: Annie Gowen and Karoun Demirjian KIEV, Ukraine - The Russian aid convoy was a mystery from the start. There were more than 200 trucks, all painted white and covered [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian and Michael Birnbaum MOSCOW - The conflict between Russia and Ukraine hit dangerous new heights Friday as Russia sent an enormous aid convoy into rebel-held Ukrainian territory [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor WASHINGTON - Foreign fighters have become central to the narrative of the Islamic State and its fighting in Syria and Iraq: Just this week the distinct British [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum SHCHASTYA, Ukraine - Zhanna Sologub doesn't know if the rocket that struck the courtyard of her house this month was fired by pro-Russian rebels or Ukrainian government [...]

This editorial appeared in Friday's Washington Post: Eastern Ukraine remains a violent caldron as Ukrainian soldiers shell proRussian separatists in the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. It appears that Ukraine's [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum and Carol Morello MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered that retaliatory measures be taken in response to Western sanctions against his country, as a [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum HRABOVE, Ukraine - More than a week after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in Ukraine, near the Russian border, the catastrophe appears to have done [...]

Byline: Carol Morello and Karen DeYoung KIEV, Ukraine - Rebels and government troops fired on each other's positions Sunday in a strategically important city in eastern Ukraine, sending residents into [...]

Byline: Carol Morello and Karoun Demirjian KIEV, Ukraine - Government troops were engaged in a pitched battle with rebels on Saturday just outside the separatist bastion of Donetsk and plan [...]

Byline: Petro Poroshenko When 298 innocent people were shot out of the sky by a Russian missile 10 days ago, people everywhere finally began to understand what is at stake [...]

Byline: Carol Morello and Michael Birnbaum KIEV, Ukraine - Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation Thursday, creating new uncertainty in his nation at a crucial moment in its [...]