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Uzbekistan and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) have signed $10 billion worth of agreements on cooperation in investment and finance, renewable energy, industry and infrastructure development, agriculture, and other fields.
Pakistan has charged a former police officer in last year's high-profile death of a 27-year-old man early last year.
A Turkmen correspondent for RFE/RL has left Turkmenistan after serving a three-year prison term on drug charges that human rights groups and a UN panel denounced as politically motivated.
Four people, including a provincial official, have been killed and dozens more wounded in a twin bombing claimed by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
U.S. officials have “exchanged views” with representatives of Russia and China on the current status of the Afghan peace process, the State Department says.
The Persian celebration of Norouz welcomes spring in many countries around the world. In Kyrgyzstan, the joy spills out into the streets of the capital, Bishkek.
Human Rights Watch and eight other rights groups have urged the Tajik government to immediately release a gravely ill political activist who claims to have been tortured.
A student in Pakistan has stabbed and killed a professor for allegedly planning a party to which both men and women would be invited.
Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has been sworn in as Kazakhstan’s acting president, ending the nearly 30-year rule of Nursultan Nazarbaev, who has resigned but is still expected to maintain powerful influence in the country.
Iran's missile program is destabilizing the Middle East and raising the risk of a "regional arms race," a senior U.S. arms control official has said.
A female Afghan lawmaker is coming under criticism for slapping a police officer in Kabul, but she says he deserved it.
Afghanistan's Defense Ministry says Taliban militants have captured 58 soldiers after days of fighting during which dozens of troops briefly chased into neighboring Turkmenistan in the latest blow to Kabul's beleaguered security forces.
A senior U.S. diplomat has told Afghanistan’s president that U.S. officials will no longer deal with his national security adviser, Reuters news agency is reporting, citing four knowledgeable American and Afghan sources.
Pakistan has declared March 18 a national day of mourning to honor those killed in the New Zealand mosque attacks, nine of whom were Pakistani citizens.
Police in Pakistan say at least four people have been killed and seven injured by a remote-controlled bomb that exploded on a railway line in southwestern Pakistan just as a passenger train was passing by.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani on March 17 launched four new projects in the development of a massive natural-gas field beneath the Persian Gulf that Iran shares with Qatar.
Afghan officials on March 17 reported setbacks for government security forces in northwestern and northern parts of the country.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that nine of the 50 people killed in the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque attacks on March 15 were Pakistani citizens.
An affiliate of the Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the killing on March 15 of an Afghan TV journalist in the eastern province of Khost.
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