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A war between India and Pakistan would significantly destabilize Central Asia, disrupting trade routes, delaying infrastructure projects, and increasing regional militancy.
Communist Party chief To Lam has embarked on a radical program of administrative reform that is increasingly vulnerable to ...
Francis was one of the reasons Talipbek became one of the newest members of Kyrgyzstan’s tiny Roman Catholic community last ...
Central Asia and the Caucasus are racing to position themselves as vital transit hubs as global trade routes shift. Since the ...
SEOUL – South Korea's former president Moon Jae-in said on April 25 that prosecutors were becoming political and abusing their power, and that his indictment on bribery charges was a good example.
Economic activity across the South Caucasus and Central Asia is projected to stagnate over the next two years, as uncertainty envelops global markets, according to World Bank experts. The bank’s ...
The events of September 11, 2001, and the U.S.-led war against terrorism in Afghanistan and beyond have dramatically underscored the strategic value of Central Asia to the West and present new ...
that sufficient attention has not been given to the geographical changes that have certainly occurred throughout the whole of Central Asia, and without which it appears impossible to understand ...
From April 25 to 30, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the Sixth China-Central Asia Foreign Ministers' Meeting and hold the ...
Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...
The mountainous Central Asian country adopted a new anthem in 1992 after independence from the USSR but it is largely based on the Soviet-era one. Originally published on doc.afp.com, part of the ...