Kazakhstan

US officials will meet Taliban representatives and "technocratic professionals" from key Afghan ministries during a visit to Doha this week, the State Department said on Wednesday, adding they will...

The BRICS group, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, continues to attract applications from numerous countries as it explores expansion opportunities, Anadolu Agency reports. Anadolu compiled the...

Kazakhstan will stop hosting talks aimed at resolving the Syrian conflict that erupted 12 years ago, officials have announced, a decision that Russia described as a surprise, Reuters reports....

A 13th century mosque that fell into disrepair after being used over the years as a soap factory, a slaughterhouse and a fort re-opened in Cairo on Monday after...

The case of Saeed Bakhouche’s disappearance in Algeria proves that leaving Guantanamo doesn’t mean the end of the torture. For many of us, it is simply the next step to the same fate or something worse

Kuwait signed a memorandum of understanding on Saturday to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a powerful regional bloc led by China and Russia, Anadolu reports. The document was...

Saudi Arabia has moved a step closer to joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a powerful regional bloc led by China and Russia, Anadolu News Agency reports. The Cabinet...

Turkic countries, on Tuesday, welcomed festivities surrounding Nowruz, marking the arrival of spring through various forms of celebrations, Anadolu News Agency reports. Dance and theatre performances, in addition to...

Kazakhstan is eyeing cooperation with Turkiye in the military sector, according to the Head of Kazakhstan's Association of Defence Industry Enterprises, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the report,...

An Iranian chess player who defected to Spain after she competed without a hijab and was warned not to return to her country met with Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, in...

Since the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi as president of the Islamic Republic, Central Asia has been one of Iran's foreign policy priorities. In the era of debates about Russia's...

The 6th Summit of the Conference on Cooperation and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) held on 12 – 13 October recently, attracted the attention of the world media. Turkish...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has instructed the Turkish government to begin work on a gas centre in his country, proposed by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to export Russian...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in Astana to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace process, Russian sources said. Putin will also...

You have probably heard of OPEC: Oil Producing and Exporting Countries. Nowadays, the news headlines are much about OPEC+, which includes OPEC members plus Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brunei, Kazakhstan, Malaysia,...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said yesterday that Tehran is boosting cooperation with Russia to neutralise the limitations of sanctions imposed by the United States. This came during a meeting...

Israel will host the 72nd annual World Health Organisation (WHO) conference for the first time next week, the Health Ministry announced yesterday. According to the WHO, representatives from the...

The United Arab Emirates and Sudan have expressed their support for comments made by Saudi Arabia regarding the possibility of introducing production cuts to balance an oil market it...

Naturally, one of the consequences of the sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia is to stimulate the latter's search for ways to bypass the restrictions. Since the actions...

In January 2022, Kazakhstan made international headlines when it was hit by waves of popular protests which were suppressed by the authorities in the Central Asian state. What began...

Russia thwarted an American-Israeli plan to bomb Kazakhstan the way they did with Afghanistan, which was what happened in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, benefiting from the experience of...

The turmoil in the Republic of Kazakhstan made Israel worried about its secret oil, cybersecurity and weapons deals with the Central Asian country, according to Haaretz columnist David Rosenberg....

The military general who Russia has appointed to lead its "peacekeeping mission" in Kazakhstan is the same man who headed Moscow's operations in Crimea and Syria over the past...

The Syrian opposition is making demands that are "unacceptable" in the ongoing Syrian peace talks, Russia's presidential envoy has claimed. Following consultations with the Turkish and Iranian delegations in...

Syria's Sports Federation has lodged a complaint against basketball's world governing body, FIBA, after host nation, Kazakhstan, played the Iranian national anthem instead of the Syrian one, ahead of...

India, on Wednesday, hosted a high-level talk on Afghanistan, which China and Pakistan did not attend. The dialogue in New Delhi was attended by seven other countries—Iran, Kazakhstan, the...

Egypt is one of ten countries where Apple Inc will not be offering its new private relay service, a feature which will prevent service providers and advertisers from being...

Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry said yesterday that it evacuated 12 of its citizens, including seven children, from Syria. The ministry added that the repatriation process came through the country's intelligence...

In the year 751 CE, the largely Arab-Persian army of the Abbasid Caliphate met the Chinese imperial forces of the Tang Dynasty on the banks of the River Talas...

Some OPEC ministers had a conference call on Tuesday to discuss the oil price rout and possible extra measures to support the market but it took place without the...

The Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad announced a ceasefire in Idlib yesterday evening, following the 13th round of peace talks that took place in Nur-Sultan – previously Astana...

A group of Jordanian and Lebanese engineers were reportedly assaulted while working in Kazakhstan on Saturday