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.
In a statement marking the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance on August 30, Amnesty International revealed that tens of thousands of people remain “disappeared” in seven South Asian countries where the practice has scarred communities from Afghanistan in the north to Sri Lanka in the south.
The United States cannot guarantee that it will provide India with a waiver from sanctions if it purchases major weapons from Russia like the S-400 missile system, a top Pentagon official has said.
Though it's not easy to live in Kyrgyzstan as a surrogate mother, many women decide the hardships of carrying someone else's baby are worth the big financial payoff.
Police and the family reportedly shared similar concerns about the lone surviving suspect in the worst terrorist attack on Westerners in Tajik history. But both appear to have underestimated the problem.
Afghanistan looks to be an indirect casualty of U.S. sanctions on Iran.
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