The GCC-Central Asia relations blend economic ambition with diversification in security and foreign policy. By navigating the ...

Its extensive road and railway network, coupled with major ports in the Indian Ocean, gives Iran an important advantage in ...

No one really cared about these Central Asian republics, except for a small group of Central Asian sociologists. But in term of mainstream press coverage, Central Asian has been off the map ... in ...

China’s “One Belt, One Road” project aims to make central Asia more connected to the world, yet even before the initiative was formally announced China had helped to redraw the energy map of ...

Unable to find work and feeling increasingly isolated from her relatives, Tatiana Lopatina finally has decided it is time to pack-up and move from Kazakhstan to her ancestral homeland: Russia.

With just days remaining before the presidential election on June 12, the issues of Iran's myriad ethnic groups are ... on a wide range of topics from Central Asia, including the impact of Russia ...

which found that just 28 per cent of registered voters were able to point to Iran on an unlabelled map of the Middle East, Europe, northern Africa and south-central Asia. Just 23 per cent of ...

Iran continued its attempts to foster stronger ties with Central Asian countries this week as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian hosted the prime minister of Uzbekistan. “Speaking in his ...

The discussions with Turkmenistan are part of Iran’s wider outreach to Central Asia. Tehran wants to improve trade ties and also a north-south economic corridor. Iran’s IRNA reported that ...

(Beirut) – Iranian authorities have issued a flurry of new death sentences in recent weeks, sentencing political prisoners, ethnic minorities, and foreign nationals to capital punishment ...

In the last of a special three-part series into ethnic Koreans in Central Asia, known as the Koryo Saram, CNA's Lim Yun Suk takes a look at the people taking the reverse route of their ancestors ...

The 52-year-old former sports teacher will join the millions of ethnic Russians who have left Central Asia since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, dismayed by shrinking job opportunities and ...