A court in India has convicted 24 people for their part in religious riots in 2002 in western India.
Tajikistan has sentenced two leaders of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party (HNIT) to life imprisonment while several others have received lengthy prison terms.
Pakistani investigators have arrested two officials involved in issuing Pakistani documents to the slain former Taliban leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansur, and his family.
RFE/RL journalist Khadija Ismayilova walked free from an Azerbaijani prison and vowed to keep on working after the country's Supreme Court reduced her sentence from from 7 1/2 years in custody to a suspended term of 3 1/2 years.
Russian authorities have arrested two Tajiks suspected of recruiting fighters for the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Syria.
Iran has denied reports claiming that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur had traveled to Iran before being killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan.
Iran, Afghanistan, and India have signed a trilateral agreement to turn the Iranian port of Chabahar into a transit hub between the three countries, bypassing Pakistan.
Tajikistan is holding a referendum on amendments to the constitution that are expected to strengthen the grip on power of President Emomali Rahmon.
Kazakhstan is bracing for more protests as the authorities round up more activists amid growing discontent over a controversial land law.
Police in St. Petersburg have detained two Tajiks on suspicion of recruiting fighters for the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Syria.
Two young men in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, have been jailed for raising the flag of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in a public place.
The United States and the European Union are protesting a move by Muslim and other unidentified nations to block gay groups from attending a United Nations conference on AIDS next month.
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