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Long lines of vehicles have formed at a border crossing between Russia's North Ossetia region and Georgia after Moscow announced a partial military mobilization.

Iran has partially restricted access to the Internet and social media platforms as protests spread to at least 50 cities following the death of a 22-year old woman who was detained by the country's morality police.

Hundreds came out in the North Caucasus region of Daghestan on September 25 to protest against the partial mobilization announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 21 in an effort to step up the ongoing war against Ukraine.

People in Russia's southern republic of Daghestan continued their protests against the mobilization decreed by President Vladimir Putin last week. Videos shared on social media show Russian police using force against the protesters.

Demonstrations across Iran appear be to waning as security forces continued their deadly crackdown on protests that have shaken the country for two weeks.

A suicide bomber struck a packed education center in the Afghan capital on September 30, as students worked on a practice university entrance exam.

Several dozen Afghans, mostly women, protested on October 1, one day after a suicide bombing killed dozens of mostly female students preparing for university entrance exams in Kabul. Most of the victims were from the minority Hazara community.

Early voters came to polling stations in the Balkan state of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the morning of October 2 to choose the three members of the Bosnian presidency, parliament deputies at the state, entity, and regional levels, and the president of the country's Serb-run part.

Dozens of protesters marched on October 1 in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, in support of Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed agreements to formally seize four Ukrainian territories partially occupied by Moscow.

Former German minister Christian Schmidt, who serves as the international high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, commenting on the Russian influence in the Balkan country, has said that "there is no imminent danger to the stability of Bosnia-Herzegovina."

Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has welcomed the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Belarusian human rights activist Ales Byalyatski. Speaking to RFE/RL's Belarus Service in Paris on October 7, Tsikhanouskaya said the award would "draw attention to the issue of political prisoners and torture in prisons" in Belarus.

At least 13 people were killed and more than 80 injured, including children, as a result of missile strikes in Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzya on October 9.

More than 1,000 Iranian oil workers have joined in nationwide protests over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained over an alleged Islamic dress code violation and died in custody.

Iranian security forces have intensified their crackdown on anti-government protesters in Iran's Kurdistan Province. Social-media video from Sanandaj, capital of the province, shows protesters hurling rocks at police and security forces allegedly firing directly into residential homes.

The Norway-registered Hengaw Organization for Human Rights said at least seven people were killed in Iran's Kurdish region on October 12.

Valentina is from Siberia, but she welcomed Ukrainian troops as liberators when they recaptured the village where she lives in southern Ukraine with bowls of hot borscht.

Russian strikes with Iranian-built drones targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on October 17.

In an interview on October 14 with RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, Jarrett Blanc, the deputy U.S. special envoy for Iran, brushed aside Tehran’s accusations that weeks-long mass protests in the country are orchestrated by the United States or Israel.

Speaking to Current Time in Riga on October 22, Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot change the course of war in Ukraine by dropping nuclear bombs.

Teachers have set up a secret education center in a poor neighborhood of the Afghan capital, Kabul, to teach female students aged 11 and above. The Taliban closed most secondary schools for girls after taking power in August 2021, and the militant group has not said when they will reopen.

Several thousand ethnic Serbs rallied on November 6 in North Mitrovica in a show of support for Serb officials and police officers who resigned their posts to protest against the Kosovar government's order to change old Serbian-issued vehicle-license plates.