Central Asia

WASHINGTON — Frustration with the rising threat of terrorism emanating from Afghanistan emerged at a meeting this week of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a defense and economic alliance platform consisting of…

Tajikistan The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reports that China has opened a “super observation station for climate and the environment” near the Tajik city of Shahrtuz in the southeastern Khatlon region.…

The United Nations will neither replace its female staff in Afghanistan with men nor endanger their safety, a top official for the global agency has pledged. It comes after the Taliban banned the UN…

Rahmon’s war against the Ismaili. Dubai (5/7 – 75) The government of Tajikistan’s campaign against the operations of a charitable organization funded by the Agha Khan, the spiritual leader of…

The Head of the Customs Service beneath the Government of Tajikistan took half within the 76th assembly of the Council of Heads of Customs Services of the Commonwealth of Independent…

ASTANA — Digitalization and innovation have a transformative power in shaping the lives of women and girls in Central Asia, said Deputy Regional Director of United Nations (UN) Women for…

Lines of mostly men ranging in age from their twenties to their forties filed into the main auditorium at a school in Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, anxiously clutching their passports and…

Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Central Asia (15/6 – 60) On 28 April, President Emomali Rahmon who has ruled Tajikistan since 1992 signed into law a Decree imposing the Procedure for “burying the…

Today, on the sidelines of the extraordinary Turkic Summit in Ankara, the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, the presidential press service said. At the beginning of…

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev outlined key areas of cooperation, including in emergency management, during the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) Extraordinary Summit in Ankara on March 16, the Akorda press service…