Central Asia – a region bordering Russia to the north, China to the east, and Afghanistan to the south – was, just a decade ago, widely seen as a zone of unresolved conflicts and sealed borders. Today ...

The Ferghana Valley has been the most restive area in Central Asia since the five Central Asian states became independent after the collapse of the Soviet ...

The accord, signed in the Tajik city of Khujand on March 31, saw the mutual recognition of their respective borders ... cleared Europe’s path to Central Asia. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ...

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 ...

SEOUL: South Korea's military said on Tuesday (Apr 8) that its troops fired warning shots when around 10 North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the heavily fortified border that divides the peninsula.

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 ...

By John Alam of Urus Advisory Historically, it is the ultimate crossroads between Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and ...

which still holds it back from being an alternative to the traditional Northern Route that takes goods from China through Russia to Europe. The EU-Central Asia summit in Samarkand is looking to ...

adding it had warned North Korea in advance of its firefighting mission along the heavily armed border area. The blaze in the east of the DMZ dividing the Koreas comes just weeks after South Korea ...

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 ...

A Russian Crimea could cut off American and European access to Central Asia, while benefiting China ... of the Black Sea from the Turkish border in the east to Romania in the west.