Iran has executed up to 20 Kurdish Islamists suspected of attacks on security forces, drawing condemnation from rights groups who say the convictions may have been based on forced confessions.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has opened a meeting in Washington with the foreign ministers from five ex-Soviet republics in Central Asia by calling for more cooperation to fight terrorism and to encourage economic growth.
Police in the South Kazakhstan region have detained more than 30 local residents to prevent possible ethnic clashes amid ongoing tension between local Tajiks and Kazakhs over an unconfirmed rape case.
Tajikistan announced it would impose fines of up to $100 on journalists who use complicated words that regular readers don't understand, news agencies reported on August 1.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has summoned Germany's charge d'affaires in Ankara to protest a decision that prevented President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from addressing a rally in Cologne via a video link.
Turkey says it has arrested 11 fugitive soldiers accused of trying to seize President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a failed coup earlier this month.
Kyrgyz authorities say they have detained a 20-year-old man on his way to join the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria.
Turkey has dismissed 1,389 personnel from the armed forces for suspected links to U.S.-based Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim cleric whom Turkey accuses of being behind a failed coup attempt earlier this month.
Suspected militants have killed two members of a religious minority group along the porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Turkey's purge of its military after a failed coup attempt is hindering cooperation with U.S. military and intelligence operations against the Islamic State militant group, U.S. officials have said.
Turkey on July 26 widened its crackdown after a failed coup by detaining the top Turkish military generals that are serving as part of NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Police in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, killed nine militants on July 26 who were thought to be plotting violence similar to a July 1 attack on a cafe that killed 22 people.
Load more
