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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Tajik authorities to immediately release prominent journalist Hairullo Mirsaidov and drop all charges against him.
Pakistan has ordered at least 10 international charities to close down, rejecting their applications to reregister under stricter new regulations for foreign-funded groups.
Reports from Kabul say Afghan security forces have detained four teachers and raided a school allegedly linked to a U.S.-based cleric Ankara blames for orchestrating a failed coup last year.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide has hit another new record, which it says reflects a "dismal failure by the international community to address a global crisis in freedom of the press."
The international airport in the Kazakh capital, Astana, was renamed this year in honor of the president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, who has led the country for nearly three decades.
NATO says a U.S. soldier has died as a result of injuries sustained during a "vehicle incident" in eastern Afghanistan.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in New Delhi on December 11 to meet with his Indian and Chinese counterparts, with talks expected to focus on security and trade issues in the region and elsewhere.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says President Donald Trump remains committed to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, as the backlash continued against the controversial U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Uzbekistan and Afghanistan signed an agreement on December 5 to extend a railroad connecting the two countries in a move which may eventually give Uzbekistan a direct link to sea ports.
The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says he has sent a letter to a top Iranian general warning him that Washington will hold Tehran responsible for any attacks on U.S. interests by Iran-backed forces in Iraq.
The United States has said it “strongly condemns” the attack by the Pakistani Taliban on an agriculture university in Peshawar that killed 12 people and injured 35 others.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says U.S. efforts to push Iranian military advisers and fighters out of Syria as part of a deal to end the war-torn country's six-year civil war will not succeed.
A U.S. government witness has testified that he paid over $50 million in bribes to Turkey's economy minister in 2012 as part of a $1 billion scheme to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions.
Three Georgian soldiers were injured when their vehicle came under attack near Bagram Airfield outside the Afghan capital, Kabul.
A U.S. grand jury has leveled 22 new charges against an Uzbek immigrant accused of mowing down eight people in a truck attack in New York City last month, including murder and support for the extremist group Islamic State.
Afghan officials say more than two dozen people were rescued in a raid against a Taliban prison in the southern province of Helmand.
Authorities in Pakistan say they have found the bodies of five more Pakistanis who were apparently planning to cross into Iran on their way to Europe.
The Pakistani government has extended by 24 hours a deadline for an Islamic group to disband its rally in the capital.
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