A little more than a month after Japarov unceremoniously fired Tashiev from his powerful post at the head of the State Committee for National Security, known as the GKNB, the country’s tax service ...

Over the last 10 days or so, however, Baku’s tone has softened considerably, and officials have kept open diplomatic channels ...

Leading off… Turkmenistan and Afghanistan say they are making progress in building a pipeline across Afghan territory to Pakistan and India. But progress is prov ...

Voters in Kazakhstan overwhelmingly approved a new constitution in a snap referendum on March 15. According to preliminary figures from the Central Referendum Commission, 87 percent of votes cast ...

Aliyev’s message to the new Iranian Supreme leader was particularly solicitous. “I hope that together we will make further ...

Energy interests are helping to fuel fresh efforts aimed at normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations. Meeting on the sidelines of a gathering sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) ...

Opinion polling indicates that voters will approve a new constitution for Kazakhstan in a referendum on March 15. The draft that citizens will vote on represents a near total rewrite of the existing ...

The Bloody January turmoil stemmed partly from public alienation from a political system monopolized by Nursultan Nazarbayev, ...

Pakistan’s ongoing military campaign against Afghanistan, initiated by airstrikes in late February 2026 targeting hideouts of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamic State–Khorasan Province ...

In 2025, financing woes resulted in a Russian state-controlled entity, Inter RAO, losing contracts to build three power plants in the Kazakh cities of Kokshetau, Semey and Oskemen. All three contracts ...

In early March, nine opposition parties announced a new alliance, pledging to coordinate their strategy to oppose the ruling Georgian Dream’s ongoing efforts to establish a monopoly on politics while ...