The India U23 men's team have arrived in Tajikistan to play two friendly matches against the hosts and the Kyrgyz Republic. The Blue Colts will first take on Tajikistan on Wednesday at the Hisor ...

China's trade and investment cooperation with Central Asia has also continued to gain momentum. In 2024, trade between China and the five Central Asian countries reached $94.8 billion, a year-on-year ...

New Delhi, India men's football team will take on hosts Tajikistan in a friendly match on Wednesday, kicking off a crucial two-match tour that serves as preparation for the AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2026 ...

In recent years, the strategic significance of Central Asia has surged, with five nations — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — assuming an increasingly important role in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump urged all of Iran’s capital to evacuate “immediately,” saying in a social media post that Iran ...

On Monday, Xi was greeted by Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and other senior officials at the airport in Astana. The ...

Iran fired a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, triggering air raid sirens across the country as emergency ...

For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch ...

Officials presented the constitutional referendum in Kyrgyzstan in December 2016 as necessary to shift the country from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system. This brief demonstrates the ...

Local authorities say the statue, Central Asia’s largest Lenin monument, will be moved into a nearby park.

Officials in Kyrgyzstan have taken down the country’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin—and replaced it with a flagpole.