According to preliminary figures from the Central Referendum Commission, 87 percent of votes cast supported the adoption of the new constitution, Kazakhstan’s third since the country gained ...

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

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, ...

A recent Tajik government report on living standards indicates that many households are hovering on the edge of the poverty ...

Its subsidiary, XIBU, signed a deal with Uzbek state oil and gas company Uzbekneftegas to drill 30 wells in Uzbekistan, with an option to increase the number to 105. Last month, CNPC discussed ...

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 ...

Taliban militants patrol the streets of Kabul. The recent ISKP attack in the Afghan capital laid bare Taliban’s limited capacity to provide security and added to the uncertainty surrounding ...

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 response to the ongoing warfare in the Persian Gulf precipitated by the US-Israeli attack on Iran, Chinese companies are ...

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 ...

Largely overlooked because of the burgeoning conflict in the Middle East, “open war” has erupted between Pakistan and ...