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›

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›

THE BEHEADING OF A 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL PROMPTED HUGE PROTESTS IN AFGHANISTAN

They chanted slogans against the government, the Taliban and neighboring Pakistan, which is seen as having a hand in Afghanistan's Islamist insurgency... 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›

CAMERON UNVEILS STRATEGY TO TACKLE ISLAMIST EXTREMISM

Prime Minister David Cameron sets out the government's strategy to defeat the poison of Islamist extremism in Britain... 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›

READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH

Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... 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›

HOW PORTSMOUTH BECAME A HOTBED OF RADICALISED MUSLIMS AND FAR-RIGHT THUGS

Portsmouth provides the example of Mashudur Choudhury, who before going to Syria was recruited by the council under Prevent funding to help stop violent extremism... 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›

ISLAMIC STATE DESTROYS 2,000-YEAR-OLD ARCH OF TRIUMPH IN PALMYRA

The Syrian presidency issued a rare condemnation of the destruction, describing it as Isil's revenge against a pluralistic history that threatens the extremist group's grand project... READ MORE›

ITS UP TO US TO STOP THESE MUSLIM GIRLS MAKING THE WORST MISTAKE OF THEIR LIVES

Sara Khan says she follows liberalism and feminism, but her viewpoint is so close to that of this government, he said... READ MORE›

DAVID CAMERON TELLS TEENAGE JIHADISTS THEY ARE 'CANNON FODDER'

In his speech, Mr Cameron will issue a direct message to young people who are attracted to extremist views and considering joining Jihad... 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›

THE SUN HITS BACK AT HYPOCRITE RUSSELL BRAND BY SAYING HE S NOT FUNNY... AND NO-ONE LIKES HIM

The center has a gym with a full-size basketball court, and wheelchair teams from the seven centers compete in the tournament, with Mr. Cairo as one of the referees... 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›

EDITORIAL MR PUTINS MIXED MESSAGES ON SYRIA

If there is to be a solution to the Islamic State's advance and to Syria's war both Russia and America will have to be involved... READ MORE›

PROBE CENTERS ON BRUSSELS SUBURB OF MOLENBEEK

Experts say Paris attacks' roots are much closer to home than Syria young people turning to radical Islam because they don't feel they belong... READ MORE›

WHY RUSSIA FACES ANOTHER ISLAMIC TERROR FRONT

The situation there in Afghanistan is close to critical, Putin said Friday at a meeting with Central Asian leaders near Moscow, according to the Kremlin's website... READ MORE›

RUSSIA AND ALLIES TO RAISE GUARD AT BORDERS WITH AFGHANISTAN

Mr. Putin spoke a day after the White House said it would extend the United States' military mission in Afghanistan until at least 2017... 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›

A DECADE AGO, SHE WARNED OF RADICAL ISLAM IN BELGIUMS MOLENBEEK

They are just a few of the roughly 100 people who have left Brussels to fight in Syria... 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›

TO SIDESTEP PAKISTAN, INDIA EMBRACES AN IRANIAN PORT

India is mostly just trying to grab a piece of Iran's post-sanctions economic growth... READ MORE›

BRITISH JIHADI REPORTEDLY KILLED IN SYRIA FIGHTING FOR ISIS

Abu Abdullah al-Habashi was said to have died in fighting in and around the Syrian border town of Kobani... READ MORE›

SYRIA CRISIS: FOOTAGE APPEARS TO SHOW AFTERMATH OF RUSSIAN AIRSTRIKES

General Assembly, he said that the Russian Air Forces are cooperating with the Syrian pro-government military to target exclusively Islamic State targets... READ MORE›

RUSSIA ENDS COOPERATION WITH US ON AFGHANISTAN

Russia, he said, would sit out any talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government in Kabul, backed by the United States, Pakistan and China... READ MORE›