For some time now, the authorities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan have banned end-of-school-year ...

After ethnic Azeri suspects died during apparently violent raids in a Russian city, Baku has lashed out at Moscow.

An asylum seeker in the U.K. successfully fought off deportation by arguing that he would be forced to shave off ...

Passengers take a break from the cross-border bus near Khunjerab Pass in Pakistan on June 11. PHOTO BY WU XIAOHUI/CHINA DAILY ...

The same region that has been beset by various claims by Western interests in recent times. This is the context I am faced ...

Fresh off the second China-Central Asia Summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, the outcomes reveal vast opportunities for deeper ...

Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible ...

A khalifa is a cleric or spiritual leader in Ismaili Muslim communities. Pamiris are Ismailis, following a Shiite branch of Islam, unlike the majority of Tajiks who are Sunni Muslims. Davlatmirov was ...

In a remote town in southern Kyrgyzstan, teacher Nur Akhmatov watched workers building a library, conference hall and women's ...

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly. [Photo/Agencies] An open letter from Jerry Grey to UK government MP James Cleverly, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs We, ...

A poster of The Sun Shines on Tashkurgan. [Photo provided to China Daily] The Sun Shines on Tashkurgan, a film adapted from the real-life stories of six cadres dispatched to work in the Xinjiang Uygur ...

A South West Aviation Antonov AN-26 freighter, registration EX-126 (MSN 11508) performing a charter flight from Juba to Wau (South Sudan) with 6 passengers and 3 crew, lost height shortly after ...