Russia says it is in contact with the Taliban in Afghanistan to push the militant group toward national reconciliation and to ensure the security of Russian citizens.
Ambassadors from NATO nations and Russia gathered at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels for the first NATO-Russia Council session of 2017.
A Berlin court has sentenced a Pakistani man to four years and three months in prison after he was convicted of spying for Iran.
Separate military maneuvers -- one involving Tajik and U.S. forces and the other Tajik and Russian troops -- are due to begin in Tajikistan on March 27.
Judicial authorities in Tajikistan have sentenced prominent human rights lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov, who is serving a 23-year prison sentence, to an additional two years behind bars.
More than 1.2 million first-time asylum seekers were registered in EU member states in 2016, the European Union says.
Kyrgyzstan's opposition Ata-Meken (Fatherland) party has named its detained leader Omurbek Tekebaev as the party’s candidate for the November presidential election in the country.
U.S. warplanes launched over 30 air strikes in Yemen this week in a sustained assault on Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Pentagon said on March 3.
Kazakhstan's parliament has given preliminary approval to legislation that would amend the Central Asian country's constitution, curtailing some presidential powers and redistributing them to government ministers and lawmakers.
An Uzbek court has upheld an additional five-year prison sentence for Agzam Farmonov, a long-jailed human rights activist whose 2006 extortion conviction was widely seen as politically motivated.
Al-Qaeda confirmed on March 2 that a U.S.-led coalition drone strike killed its No. 2 leader, Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, in Syria.
Hundreds of grieving relatives and friends of a 32-year-old engineer from Hyderabad, India have been mourning his death after he was murdered in an apparently racially motivated shooting in the U.S. state of Kansas.
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