CENTRAL ASIAN GROUP PRAISES ACHIEVEMENTS OF CPC

Song invited parties from Central Asian countries to actively push the Belt and Road Initiative and together build a community of a shared destiny... READ MORE›

TIME TO BOOST LINKS LI TELLS 3 LEADERS

While meeting with Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, Li said China will work with Uzbekistan to advance projects of production capacity cooperation and connectivity... READ MORE›

EU AND IRAN DEFEND NUCLEAR DEAL, UNDER FIRE FROM TRUMP

The nuclear deal was a major achievement of European and international multilateral diplomacy, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told a conference in Uzbekistan... READ MORE›

IS CENTRAL ASIA A 'HOTBED FOR EXTREMISM'?

As evidence, many cited a string of recent attacks carried out by individuals of Central Asian origin in Istanbul, Saint Petersburg and Stockholm... READ MORE›

WHY UZBEKS BECAME A KEY FIGHTING FORCE FOR IS GROUP

Experts say Central Asians, and Uzbeks in particular, are a prominent fighting force in the militant group's jihad... READ MORE›

A HISTORIC VOTE, BUT IS IT FAIR?

For the first time in the history of Kyrgyzstan, an elected president is due to peacefully hand over power after elections take place on Sunday... READ MORE›

TAJIKISTAN USES INTERPOL RED NOTICE ON MIRZORAHIM KUZOV

His arrest was possible because of a red notice alert issued at Tajikistan's request, a tool which allows Interpol... READ MORE›

KYRGYZSTAN VOTES FOR NEW PRESIDENT IN HISTORIC ELECTION

Voters in the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan are choosing a new president in an election that is unusual for the region because it is unpredictable... READ MORE›

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HOW THE USSR'S EFFORT TO DESTROY ISLAM CREATED A GENERATION OF RADICALS

They did, and by the '70s Islam had made a comeback in much of Central Asia... READ MORE›

CARGO TRAIN ROLLS OUT BETWEEN EAST CHINA, KAZAKHSTAN[1]

A cargo train between Ganzhou, East China's Jiangxi province, and Kazakhstan starts its journey on July 27, 2017... READ MORE›

CARGO TRAIN ROLLS OUT BETWEEN EAST CHINA, KAZAKHSTAN[1]

A cargo train between Ganzhou, East China's Jiangxi province, and Kazakhstan starts its journey on July 27, 2017... READ MORE›

DRUGS MULE MICHAELLA MCCOLLUM RETURNS TO IBIZA AND THE SCENE OF THE CRIME

The move will make the SCO one of the biggest regional organizations, covering about half of the world's population... READ MORE›

'DEMOCRACY WAS HIJACKED. IT GOT A BAD NAME'

The town of Sokh, for example, is part of Uzbekistan, but fully surrounded by Kyrgyzstan, and its 20,000 population are almost entirely ethnic Tajiks... READ MORE›

MASSIVE LANDSLIDE KILLS 24 IN KYRGYSTAN'S OSH

Heavy rain triggered landslides in Kyrgystan's Osh region, burying part of a village and killing at least 24 people, including nine children... READ MORE›

The Aral Sea has been retreating over the last half-century since a massive Soviet irrigation project diverted water from the rivers that fed it into farmland... READ MORE›

UZBEKS VOTE ON EXPECTED 4TH TERM FOR AUTHORITARIAN

Mr. Karimov has led impoverished, landlocked Uzbekistan since it was still part of the Soviet Union and has used his 26 years in power to eliminate all opposition and even criticism... READ MORE›

STOCKHOLM ATTACK SUSPECT IS UZBEK DENIED RESIDENCY IN SWEDEN

Appears to be listed as living at another address in the northern Stockholm suburb of Hjulsta... READ MORE›

WORLD MOURNS DEATHS OF 224 PEOPLE KILLED IN RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH

Airport authorities said all 224 people aboard Metrojet Flight 7K9268 en route from the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh were Russian, the Russian news agency RIA reports... READ MORE›

TURKEY IDENTIFIES NATIONALITIES OF AIRPORT BOMBERS

But an enduring question was why the militant group chose not to send its Russian-speaking fighters on such missions... READ MORE›

ST PETERSBURG METRO ATTACK: 'BOMB' FOUND IN CITY RAID

Witnesses said the three suspects were all from Central Asia... READ MORE›

PUTIN ENCOURAGES IRAN TO JOIN RUSSIA-LED EURASIAN ALLIANCE

In some branches of the economy Russian-Iranian cooperation has already become strategic, Putin noted... READ MORE›

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DISMAY AS UZBEKISTAN AUTOCRAT CLINGS TO POWER

Among human rights activists and political dissidents, the gnashing of teeth has already begun... READ MORE›

KERRY TIES UZBEKISTANS HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD TO COOPERATION ON MANY FRONTS

Sanctions imposed in 2004 over human rights abuses were waived by the White House that year in recognition of Uzbekistan's supporting role in the war in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

KERRY REASSURES AFGHANISTAN'S NEIGHBORS OVER U.S. TROOP DRAWDOWN

During the summer, Rakhmon's government banned the only official Islamist political party in former Soviet Central Asia... READ MORE›

TAJIKISTAN EUROPEAN GROUP REBUKES GOVERNMENT OVER CRACKDOWN ON OPPOSITION PARTY

Tajik authorities banned the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan this week with a local court labeling it a terrorist organization... READ MORE›

CENTRAL ASIA LINK TO ST PETERSBURG BOMB IS WORRYING SIGN FOR KREMLIN

Hundreds, if not thousands, of people from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan are believed to be fighting with Isis... READ MORE›

THE STATE MUSEUM OF ARTS IN TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN

In Postcards from Uzbekistan this week we visit the State Museum of Arts in the capital Tashkent... READ MORE›

BRITON FACES FIVE YEARS IN JAIL FOR KYRGYZ SAUSAGE HORSE PENIS SLUR

Briton faces five years in jail for horse penis slur on Kyrgyzstan sausage delicacy... READ MORE›

TO FIGHT ISLAMIST RADICALS, TAJIKISTAN SHAVED THE BEARDS OFF 13,000 MEN

In a bid to curb Islamist radicalization, authorities in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan shaved the beards off nearly 13,000 men in the country... READ MORE›

KYRGYZSTAN AND UZBEKISTAN TURN TO CIVILIAN MILITIAS TO SECURE BORDERS

Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan turn to civilian militias to secure borders Central Asian countries are looking to volunteers to help strengthen security along ill-defined frontiers... READ MORE›

BOMB DEFUSED IN RAID IN ST. PETERSBURG, DAYS AFTER METRO ATTACK

Mr. Dzhalilov had lived in St. Petersburg since 2011, after obtaining Russian citizenship through his father... READ MORE›

NEW RUSSIAN MIGRATION LAW BOOSTS ISLAMIC STATE RECRUITMENT IN TAJIKISTAN

Bobonazarova likened Tajikistan's dependence on the Russian market to a hostage situation ... READ MORE›

"JUST AS PAKISTAN HAS VERY REAL AND LEGITIMATE SECURITY INTERESTS IN AFGHANISTAN, SO DOES INDIA," SHE SAID.

Just as Pakistan has very real and legitimate security interests in Afghanistan, so does India... READ MORE›

STOCKHOLM ATTACK SUSPECT WAS ISIS RECRUIT UZBEK OFFICIAL SAYS

Mr. Kamilov said that Mr. Akilov was born in 1978 in Samarkand, in central Uzbekistan... READ MORE›

UZBEKISTAN ELECTION: ACTING PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO WIN EASILY

Uzbekistan is holding its first presidential election since the death of Islam Karimov, the man who ruled the Central Asian country with an iron fist for 27..... READ MORE›

CENTRAL ASIAN MIGRANTS FEEL THE PAIN OF RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC DOWNTURN

The reality is that Russia's economic problems are likely to result in a worsening situation in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan... READ MORE›

CAR BOMB ATTACK IN BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN

Chinese embassy blast Car bomb attack in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF WARNS ISLAMIC STATE GROUP MAY INVADE CENTRAL ASIA

MOSCOW Russian intelligence has warned of an increased risk of Taliban or Islamic State group fighters staging an invasion of Central Asia... READ MORE›