Uzbekistan

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 Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, TAQA, has signed agreements with the government of Uzbekistan worth $3 billion to invest in the Central Asian country's power sector. The investment...

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...

Iran has reiterated its claim over disputed shared water resources with neighbouring Afghanistan, Anadolu News Agency reports. Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said on Monday that he discussed the dispute...

The foreign ministers of Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan, on Thursday, held the US and its allies, who hastily withdrew from Afghanistan in 2020, responsible for the country's "disastrous...

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...

Trained dogs played a very crucial role during search and rescue operations in quake-hit Turkiye, said a member of the rescue team from Uzbekistan, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The...

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...

Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo has agreed to join Saudi Arabian football club Al-Nassr as part of a two-and-a-half-year deal, Spain's Marca newspaper has revealed. The paper said according to the contract,...

Uzbek President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, announced on Friday plans for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to expand, Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking at a meeting of the SCO leaders in...

Ankara is putting "sincere efforts" to end the crisis in Ukraine and let the grain to be exported to Africa, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Friday, Anadolu...

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...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, hailed growing ties with Tehran as he met his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Samarkand,...

Iran signed a Memorandum of Commitment, Wednesday, for its permanent membership in the powerful regional grouping, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Anadolu News Agency reports. Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian,...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will be attending the upcoming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) which will be held in Uzbekistan's Samarkand on 16 and 17 September. Raisi...

Last Wednesday, Uzbek President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, became the first leader from his country to visit Saudi Arabia in 30 years, the latest recipient of a Saudi diplomatic offensive that...

Uzbekistan's President has returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia with $14 billion in promised investments, his office says, Taskent Times reports. According to the report, Saudi Arabia is...

There will be no meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syria's Bashar Al-Assad at an upcoming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in September, Turkiye's foreign...

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...

Iran has executed a man over the murder of two clerics and the wounding of another in a knife attack carried out in April at the Imam Reza shrine...

The Turkish government has ratified several international agreements in areas of sports, transportation, economy and trade, according to the country's Official Gazette on Thursday, and reported by Anadolu News...

Police in Uzbekistan have been forcing dozens of practising Muslim men to shave their beards according to a report today by RFE/RL. Over the past recent weeks, there have...

The presidents of  Turkey and Uzbekistan discussed regional issues and bilateral ties in a call yesterday, Anadolu Agency reports. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev discussed steps to...

The EU is putting together a proposal to avoid a repeat of the 2015 migrant crises with a €600 million ($710 million) fund for Afghanistan's neighbours to help them host refugees fleeing the country...

After days of speculation over his whereabouts, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani resurfaced in the UAE amidst allegation and bitter condemnation that the 72-year-old fled with some $169 million and...

Egypt's Hedaya Malak has won her country's first medal at this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, in the women's 67kg taekwondo event, earning a bronze after defeating Paige McPherson...

Authorities in Uzbekistan are once again restricting and controlling the practise of Islam after some years of easing its previous hard-line policy towards non-state sanctioned interpretations. According to a report on Sunday...

The government of Uzbekistan announced on Tuesday that it has repatriated from camps in Syria 25 women and 73 children linked to Daesh, RT and other news agencies have...

Uzbekistan plans to repatriate another group of its citizens, mostly women and children, from Syria where they are staying at crowded camps with other families of Daesh fighters, an...

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