So a symbiotic relationship between Russia and Central Asia looks likely to endure. Lenin may no longer loom large over Kyrgyzstan, but Russia will loom large over Central Asia for quite a while yet.

Central Asia’s worsening water crisis risks regional instability, but also creates a rare opening for the US to engage diplomatically, support infrastructure, and counter rival powers through ...

Xi said Afghanistan was a “close neighbor” to China, as well as Central Asia. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan share a border with Afghanistan.

In a remote town in southern Kyrgyzstan, teacher Nur Akhmatov watched workers building a library, conference hall and women's sports centre -- construction mostly funded by Kyrgyz emigrants ...

(Reuters) -- Russia said on Thursday it had accepted the credentials of a new ambassador of Afghanistan, making it the first nation to recognize the Taliban government of the country.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is in talks with its Afghanistan counterpart to organise a tri-series in August involving hosts UAE in the event of the Asia Cup getting cancelled or postponed.

ISLAMABAD -- Afghanistan's Taliban government has terminated a two-year-old oil extraction and development contract with a Chinese company due to alle ...

Russia is the first country to formally recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan since the group seized power in 2021, according to its Foreign Ministry.