A Kazakh citizen has been sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison after being found guilty of inciting separatism via the Internet.
A court in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aqtobe has convicted 29 men in a high-profile terrorism trial.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 has struck northeastern Tajikistan on the border with China, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Bulgaria's prime minister says some 300 migrants have been arrested following a riot in the country's largest refugee camp that left two dozen police injured.
At least two people have been killed and 16 others injured when a car exploded outside a government building in the southern Turkish city of Adana, officials say.
The number of casualties from landmines and similar explosives rose sharply last year to the highest level in a decade, a monitoring group said in a report issued on November 22.
The Pentagon has notified Congress that it plans to stop buying Russian Mi17 helicopters for Afghanistan and will start buying American helicopters.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has traveled to Uzbekistan for talks with senior officials.
A correspondent for RFE/RL's Turkmen service has been attacked for a second time within a month following an assault that rights activists say was aimed at attempting to silence her reporting.
Pakistan says seven of its soldiers have been killed by Indian shelling in the disputed region of Kashmir.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the West is facing some of its greatest security challenges and "going it alone is not an option."
Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump not to play games with Iran, and said Trump should apologize to the Iranian people for calling them "terrorists" during his campaign.
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