U.S. prosecutors said they have sentenced a Dutch-Turkish citizen to 88 months in jail for providing support to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a designated terrorist group.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has offered to host fresh peace talks between the warring sides in the Syria conflict as part of a plan floated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Pakistan has accused Indian forces of opening fire on a school van in the disputed Kashmir region, killing the driver and wounding at least eight children.
An exiled Kazakh opposition figure who has just been released from custody in France says he is aiming to topple the government of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev within the next three years.
Shavkat Mirziyaev has been sworn in as president of Uzbekistan, becoming the second person to hold the post since Central Asia's most populous country gained independence in the collapse of the Soviet Union 25 years ago.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has enacted an amnesty for tens of thousands of people who are behind bars in the Central Asian nation.
Officials say the death toll from two bomb explosions in Istanbul has risen to 38 with another 166 wounded as Turkey declared a national day of mourning.
Polls have opened in Kyrgyzstan for a constitutional referendum that could shift key powers from the president to the prime minister and effectively outlaw same-sex marriage.
U.S. President Barack Obama warned that the United States will not be able to wipe out terrorism through increased military might in a veiled shot at his successor Donald Trump.
Indian security forces in Kashmir blocked medical care for injured protesters by firing on ambulances and holding up emergency vehicles, a health rights group said on December 6.
Turkmen authorities have arrested an RFE/RL contributor on charges of possessing chewing tobacco, days after one RFE/RL correspondent was threatened with arrest and another was physically injured in a series of violent attacks.
A Kazakh citizen has been sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison after being found guilty of inciting separatism via the Internet.
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