One by one, Iranians are publicly defying the so-called hijab rule in echoes of an iconic protest by a 31-year-old mother in Tehran.
This week, the Majlis looks at the problems new Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov inherited, what he is doing about them, and what he needs to do to move Kyrgyzstan forward.
Top Tajik officials have been warned that they can get in trouble if their wives don't take part in volunteer work.
After almost a decade of absence, U.S. diplomacy is back in the Caspian energy game. (The views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
Geographer Hermann Kreutzmann's Wakhan Quadrangle. Exploration And Espionage During And After The Great Game, published this year, sheds light on these historiographical problems in a valley purportedly traversed by famous explorer Marco Polo.
The federal prosecutor's office in Germany says police have conducted a series searches across the country in connection with investigations into 10 suspected Iranian spies.
In Pakistan Afghan refugees feel caught between Islamabad and Washington as bilateral relations rapidly deteriorate after U.S. President Donald Trump accused Pakistan on January 1 of “lies and deceit” while providing a safe haven to terrorists that U.S. forces are seeking to counter in Afghanistan.
A controversial video of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from 1989, when he was appointed supreme leader, is raising questions about his leadership.
A bounty is out on a mysterious poet who uses the pen to lash out at fellow villagers and their daily routines.
An Iranian lawmaker says that about 3,700 people have been arrested during antigovernment protests, while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is claiming that Tehran foiled what he called attempts by the United States and Britain to create unrest.
Persecuted at home, a transgender woman from Uzbekistan is seeking asylum in Belarus -- a country that is not exactly known as a haven of tolerance when it comes to sexual orientation.
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