Kazakhstan has been elected to the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term starting January 1.
Strong earthquakes have hit Central Asia, but no casualties or damages have been reported so far.
Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says security forces clashed with suspected Kurdish militants in the country's northwest, leaving at least five insurgents dead.
Kazakh authorities say an outbreak of anthrax has been confirmed in the eastern part of the country -- the second outbreak to infect villagers in Kazakhstan within a week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has held out the possibility that India and Pakistan could join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2017.
Presidents of member states and countries with the status of observers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) were in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, on June 23 for the start of a two-day summit.
Russia says the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will discuss a "very tense situation" in Afghanistan when the grouping holds its summit in Uzbekistan this week.
Iran says it has arrested 10 Sunni Muslim militants who were planning to bomb 50 targets in the country.
Two people hospitalized with symptoms of anthrax infection have died in Kazakhstan's central city of Qaraghandy.
Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security (UKMK) says its officers have arrested two foreign nationals who allegedly were trying to join so-called Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria.
Pakistani and Afghan diplomats met in Islamabad on June 20 to discuss deadly border clashes but failed to reach an agreement about managing their border.
Pakistani and Afghan diplomats met in Islamabad on June 20 to discuss deadly border clashes last week that killed two Afghan border guards and a Pakistani officer.
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