Uzbekistan's new leadership has released some of the dozens of people imprisoned on what rights groups say are politically motivated charges. Is that what Tashkent calls turning a corner?
A Pakistani general has hailed a new security fence being built along the border with Afghanistan as a "paradigm change" in the fight against Islamist militants. Afghanistan has condemned the construction. (Reuters)
Students in the Pakistani capital blocked roads to protest a 20 percent tuition fee hike at an Islamabad university. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
Pakistani officials said a suicide bomb attack on a police transport truck on October 18 killed several members of the country's security forces. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on October 17 they took “full control” of the city of Raqqa, long the extremist group Islamic State’s main stronghold in Syria, following months of heavy fighting. (AFP)
Canadian-American couple freed in Pakistan after almost five years in captivity has returned to Canada on October 13. Joshua Boyle said his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, had been raped and one of their children murdered by kidnappers from the Taliban-linked Haqqani network. (Reuters)
Iran will remain committed to a multinational nuclear deal -- the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) as long as it serves the country's national interests, Iranian President Hassan Rohani said on October 13 in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's denouncement of the deal. (Reuters)
U.S. President Donald Trump decided on October 13 not to certify Iran's compliance to its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, in which Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. What happens next?
Journalists marched in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar to condemn the killing of a fellow reporter. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
A group of legislators from Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal areas have set up a protest camp in front of parliament in Islamabad. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said a political settlement in Afghanistan is only possible if Taliban militants reject the support or conduct of terrorism.
An Uzbek teacher set himself alight and leaped from the roof of his home, in protest at plans by the authorities to demolish it. The authorities in the Tortkol region in the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of western Uzbekistan say around 500 houses were built illegally and must be bulldozed. (UGC/
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