See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Rwanda-backed rebels controlling cities in eastern Congo have forcibly closed settlement camps, leading to the displacement ...

The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...

SA national Defence Minister and military leaders face backlash over slow response to soldiers held hostage by M23 rebels in the DRC.

Like badly written haikus, there’s a steady flow of few-syllabled Brits leaving the UK right now. These abandoneers of the modern age are disgruntled with ...

It is a sad day for NSW when the premier wastes taxpayers’ money on bringing out these UFC thugs. We hear about traumatic ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

None of Zawadi Sifa’s seven children have known life without fear and the constant threat of violence. Her story mirrors that ...

(CNN) — More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame was due to meet his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi in Tanzania on Saturday as regional leaders convene in a bid to defuse the conflict in Democratic ...