The imam of a Tashkent mosque has been relieved of his duties just hours after he posted a video appeal to the Uzbek president calling for greater religious freedom.
China is carrying out a "mass, systematic campaign of human rights violations" against its mostly Muslim Uyghur minority population, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.
Gas-rich Turkmenistan has inaugurated a refurbished and expanded Soviet-era power plant that it hopes will help it boost exports to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
China is defending its billions of dollars of investment in Pakistan, dismissing allegations the economic development program is pushing the cash-strapped South Asia ally into a “Chinese debt trap.”
One group that seems to have gained prominence since Shavkat Mirziyoev took over as Uzbek president: mob bosses. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
Kyrgyzstan defeated Uzbekistan 32 to 9 in the championship finals of kok-boru at the World Nomad Games in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, on September 7.
Tajik police detained a woman who poured gasoline on herself in a protest outside the Dushanbe office of the OSCE.
The mother of a Tajik man who is suspected of carrying out a fatal attack against a group of foreign cyclists in the Central Asian country in July poured gasoline on herself outside the Dushanbe office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The United States and India vowed to cooperate more closely on defense matters, but reported no breakthroughs regarding U.S. threats to impose sanctions over New Delhi's purchases of Iranian crude oil and Russian weaponry.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis have held talks with their counterparts in India, one day after Pompeo visited regional rival Pakistan.
In a dusty town in the Uzbek desert, a collection of once-banned Soviet-era art worth hundreds of millions of dollars is finally attracting the world’s attention.
China is denying reports that it plans to deploy troops or establish a military base in Afghanistan, saying it is merely engaged in "normal military and security cooperation" with its neighbor.
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