One crowning touch was a conversation with the Turkmen director general for motor roads, who confessed that he used OpenStreetMap data on his smartphone to navigate, and another was a request from the ...

Francis was one of the reasons Talipbek became one of the newest members of Kyrgyzstan’s tiny Roman Catholic community last ...

The new U.S. administration has issued an executive order aimed at boosting domestic production of critical minerals, reflecting the recognition of security risks posed ...

Central Asia and the Caucasus are racing to position themselves as vital transit hubs as global trade routes shift. Since the ...

Italian forklift mechanic Tommy Caragilo caught a ferry from Italy to Greece in May 2024 then set off on his Honda CBR600 ...

What Afghanistan offers is simple but game-changing: it cuts travel time between Russia and South Asia from 30 days down to ...

China's strategic relationship with Central Asia has grown expansively over the past decade, symbolized by both the 1996 founding of the "Shanghai Five," which in June 2001 became the Shanghai ...

that sufficient attention has not been given to the geographical changes that have certainly occurred throughout the whole of Central Asia, and without which it appears impossible to understand ...

Map of Turkmenistan: One of the country’s best known tourist attractions is the blazing natural gas crater widely referred to as the “Gates of Hell.” The desert crater located about 260 ...

From April 25 to 30, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the Sixth China-Central Asia Foreign Ministers' Meeting and hold the ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...