Drums were banged and trumpets blasted when emotional residents of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan crossed the border between the ... For a long time Central Asia’s most volatile frontier has played ...

TOKYO -- Recent moves toward closer integration in Central Asia, 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, are likely to attract economic cooperation and investment in the strategically ...

Central Asia – a region bordering Russia to the north, China to the east, and Afghanistan to the south – was, just a decade ...

John Feng is Newsweek's contributing editor for Asia based in Taichung, Taiwan. His focus is on East Asian ... 10 North Korean soldiers crossed the heavily fortified border separating the two ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has one eye trained on Russia’s southern border – and boosting Russian influence in Central Asia. Following his 2024 re-election, Putin made Uzbekistan his ...

Some of the North Korean soldiers were armed, according to the South Korean military. Bloodshed and violent confrontations have occasionally occurred at the heavily fortified border, called the ...