A top Iranian judiciary official says the death penalty hasn’t deterred drug trafficking, which is in fact on the rise.
At least 11 police officers have been killed and 78 others wounded after a car bomb exploded outside a police headquarters in southeast Turkey.
Tajikistan’s parliament has adopted a new law on amnesty proposed by President Emomali Rahmon last week.
Turkish and U.S.-led coalition forces have launched a military offensive aimed at clearing Islamic State (IS) militants from a border area of northern Syria.
Washington says it has received a formal extradition request from Turkey for exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Four members of a radical group that was plotting a string of terrorist attacks were detained in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan, the press service of the Kazakh National Security Committee said.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry says Russia’s use of a military base in Hamadan for striking targets in Syria has ended for now.
Iran has released images of its first domestically built long-range missile defense system, the Bavar-373.
Turkish officials say the death toll in a suspected suicide bomb attack the southeastern city of Gaziantep has risen to 50. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed the Islamic State extremist group, saying the aim of such attacks was to "spread incitement along ethnic and religious lines."
Kyrgyz officials in the southern region of Osh have detained a group of religious followers for illegally propagating Islamic teaching.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has prolonged a moratorium on land privatization and land leasing to foreigners until December 2021.
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