Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday hosted a U.S. envoy for talks in the Belarus capital of Minsk, the latest step in the isolated leader’s effort to improve ties with the West.

The Ivye Mosque is the oldest functioning mosque on the territory of Belarus. It was built between 1882 and 1884. The ...

Exclusive-Trump Administration Seeks Major Belarus Prisoner Release, Sources Say By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration and Belarus are discussing the possible release of at ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that his country may give up its dream of joining NATO, at least ...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration and Belarus are discussing the possible release of at least 100 political prisoners by Minsk soon, three sources familiar with the matter said, in an ongoing ...

In the largest prisoner release to date, Belarus freed 52 people in September. Western human rights organizations say Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's government holds more than 1,000 ...

FILE PHOTO: Ihar Losik, 33, a journalist sentenced in 2021 to 15 years in a penal colony on charges of inciting hatred and organising riots, looks on after arriving with other prisoners released from ...

The latest round of talks between Ukraine and the US aimed at ending the war have just finished in Berlin. Later, Volodymyr ...

In Ukraine, participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the disaster at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant are ...

More than 620,000 miles of barbed-wire fences divide the American West. They keep cattle contained. They’re expensive to ...