Tajikistan, Central Asia’s poorest state, appears to be the regional leader in providing humanitarian aid to Iran. Russia, ...

The adoption of a new constitution in Kazakhstan that downgraded the status of the Russian language has animated debates in ...

Over the last 10 days or so, however, Baku’s tone has softened considerably, and officials have kept open diplomatic channels ...

A little more than a month after Japarov unceremoniously fired Tashiev from his powerful post at the head of the State Committee for National Security, known as the GKNB, the country’s tax service ...

Leading off… Turkmenistan and Afghanistan say they are making progress in building a pipeline across Afghan territory to Pakistan and India. But progress is prov ...

Aliyev’s message to the new Iranian Supreme leader was particularly solicitous. “I hope that together we will make further ...

Opinion polling indicates that voters will approve a new constitution for Kazakhstan in a referendum on March 15. The draft that citizens will vote on represents a near total rewrite of the existing ...

According to preliminary figures from the Central Referendum Commission, 87 percent of votes cast supported the adoption of the new constitution, Kazakhstan’s third since the country gained ...

The Bloody January turmoil stemmed partly from public alienation from a political system monopolized by Nursultan Nazarbayev, ...

Energy interests are helping to fuel fresh efforts aimed at normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations. Meeting on the sidelines of a gathering sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) ...

Pakistan’s ongoing military campaign against Afghanistan, initiated by airstrikes in late February 2026 targeting hideouts of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamic State–Khorasan Province ...

Nobody can have been surprised to see Turkmenistan ranked 170th out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index. Any nation scoring between 0 and 50 points on ...