U.S. prosecutors said the daughter of Uzbekistan’s president and several associates failed to comply with a court order to turn over more than $500 million held in Swiss banks as part of a long-running money-laundering investigation.
Amnesty International is accusing Moscow of "lending a helping hand" to torture in Uzbekistan by aiding in the forcible returns of hundreds of Uzbek nationals from Russia.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants have attacked an office of the country's main security agency in Kabul, killing at least 28 people and wounding about 300 more.
A Pakistani antiterrorism court has sentenced two men to life imprisonment for their role in a pedophile ring accused of abusing dozens of children in Pakistan's Punjab Province.
The United Nations has reported 600 civilian deaths in Afghanistan's war in the first quarter of this year -- down 13 percent from the first three months of 2015.
Freedom House just released its annual Nations In Transit (NIT) report, an indispensable look at the human rights situation in 29 countries, including all five Central Asian states.
Pope Francis has paid a highly emotional visit to a migrant detention center in Greece, in a bold gesture of solidarity for the refugees whose influx has roiled European politics.
An Afghan lawmaker appears to threaten his female interviewer with rape in a new documentary on the state of women's rights, and for that he is demanding an apology from whomever plotted against him by distributing the taped exchange.
At least two explosions have been reported in Kabul's diplomatic area, shortly after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry left the Afghan capital following an unannounced visit during which he called on the Taliban to restart direct peace talks with the government.
With the Russian economy in tatters, figures for remittances in 2015 from the millions of Central Asian citizens working in Russia have been published for the five states in Central Asia and they showed what many had feared.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan in an attempt to defuse a growing political crisis fueled partly by a national unity deal he brokered after the disputed presidential election in 2014.
Pakistan has denied any wrongdoing by the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after it was linked to offshore wealth holdings in the massive Panama Papers scandal.
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