Imams in Uzbekistan joined riot police for training drills to suppress civil unrest.
Hundreds of worshipers gathered at the King Faisal Mosque in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on August 22 to celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice.
A fierce battle broke out in Afghanistan's capital, after militants targeted rockets near where President Ashraf Ghani was speaking.
They hadn't played an international soccer match in Kabul since 2013. That changed when the Palestinian National Team arrived to take on Afghanistan on August 19.
Transgender activists staged a passionate protest in the Pakistani city of Peshawar to condemn the murder and mutilation of a transgender woman.
A suicide bomber killed at least 48 people and wounded 67 others in a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The shrinking of the Aral Sea -- a man-made environmental disaster that started in the 1960s -- devastated fishing communities. But a dam completed in 2005 has allowed water to refill part of the sea in Kazakhstan. One fisherman told RFE/RL's Kazakh Service how his village has come back to life.
Fifty years ago, Soviet-led forces rolled into Czechoslovakia, ending reform efforts to create "socialism with a human face."
Pakistan celebrated its 71st Independence Day with fireworks in Islamabad. People took to the streets of the capital following official ceremonies marking the event earlier on August 14.
Afghan government forces backed by U.S. air strikes were struggling to push Taliban militants out of the southeastern city of Ghazni on August 14 as clashes continue for a fifth straight day. The fighting has reportedly resulted in 110 to 150 civilian casualties, according to the UN report.
An Afghan woman recalls life under the Islamic State extremist group in northern Afghanistan, where the militants have been accused of rape, forced marriages, and using child soldiers.
The bodies of three Czech soldiers -- Martin Marcin, Kamil Benes, and Patrik Stepanek -- killed in a suicide attack at the weekend in Afghanistan were returned to Prague on August 8 in a ceremony marking the deadliest incident involving the army's foreign missions in four years.
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