Reports suggest the United States could designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organization. Tehran has warned that such a move would be met with a "firm, decisive, and crushing" response.
Can you imagine living in a place where every year the government forces you to pick 50 kilos of cotton, every day, for 12 straight days, for just 5 cents a kilo? That's the reality in Uzbekistan.
For decades, Pashtun tribal people from the villages along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan have ignored the invisible line that demarcates the two countries. But now they are bracing for the prospect of a Berlin Wall-style divide.
Turkish teachers in Kazakhstan fear they are being forced out of the country amid Ankara's hunt for alleged supporters of last year's failed coup.
Yazidi women once held as sex slaves by Islamic State (IS) militants have recounted how they endured their horrific captivity.
Russia has led its partners in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) with the highest ranking among the group in the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2017-18 Global Competitiveness Report.
Tajikistan has issued regulations on how mourners can behave at funerals, forbidding wearing black, pulling one's hair, or wailing too loudly. The measures are part of wide-ranging restrictions on cultural life, intended, officials say, to promote Tajik traditions and rein in religious extremism.
Vote counting was under way after a large voter turnout for a referendum on independence in Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region that came despite warnings from the United Nations, the United States, Turkey, and Iran that the ballot would fuel tensions in the region.
In the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region, traffic cameras nail speeders, and trash thrown on the street is whisked away by morning. High-level officials from all over the country dine at five-star hotels, and parks, malls, and cafes are packed on nights and weekends.
U.S. President Donald Trump on September 8 urged Saudi Arabia and other Arab states to resolve their differences with Qatar and present a united front against Iran, the White House said.
Tajikistan has witnessed a growing number of its citizens joining Islamic extremists fighting in the Middle East. Shohmurod Kavrakov, a resident of the southern region of Danghara, says his younger brother tried to recruit him to join Islamic State militants in Syria. (RFE/RL's Tajik Service)
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