Recent Moscow attack highlights rising extremism in Central Asia, influenced by Pakistan. Tajik Taliban seeks to establish an Islamic Emira...

Central Asia faces water scarcity, rising tensions and uneven distribution, affecting the agricultural and hydropower sectors. This has led...

Clashes between the two former Soviet countries broke out on Wednesday, killing nearly a hundred people and injuring even more. A ceasefire...

The foreign ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan met to resolve the issue, but the border guard agency said that two ceasefire agreements...

The border guards of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have exchanged fire in two incidents following a dispute over the border that separates the ...

Tajikistan, strategically placed in Central Asia, on Thursday awarded its highest distinction to former Afghan defence minister Massoud and...

He recalled that the conflict in Afghanistan has been continuing for decades. "The former Soviet Union has its own experience in that count...

Speaking in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe where he met his counterpart Sherali Mirzo, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow ha...

Russia operates a military base in Tajikistan, a fellow ex-Soviet republic, whose government has expressed concern about the rapidly deteri...

The Taliban in recent weeks have brought huge swathes of Afghanistan under their control as foreign troops draw down, including the main Sh...

Moscow is closely watching the offensive, concerned about the security of countries in ex-Soviet Central Asia where it maintains military b...

Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon on Monday ordered the mobilisation of 20,000 military reservists to bolster the border with Afghanistan aft...

Border disagreements between the three countries that share the fertile Fergana Valley -- Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- stem fro...

But the shooting that broke out Thursday between the two militaries was the heaviest fighting in years and raised fears that it might escal...

In a tweet, Jaishankar said he had a "fruitful meeting" with his Kyrgyz counterpart Chingiz Aidarbekov and thanked him for his efforts in f...

Hamid Ansari will hold high-level talks with top Tajik leadership during which the issue of terrorism and trade ties are likely to top the ...

The global economy should begin seeing signs of recovery by next year, IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Wednesday during a...