Another project designed to draw Afghans closer to Central Asia is the AIRITOMFree Zone in Termez, which opened last year and ...

Strengthening regional ties, Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister says his country is ready to expand cooperation with Afghanistan ...

Central Asia and Afghanistan also have important demographic ties. Afghanistan is an ethnically diverse country, with more than a dozen ethno-linguistic groups represented substantially in the ...

In a move that could reshape regional geopolitics, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan have signed a framework agreement for a Joint Feasibility Study on the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (UAP) ...

In Central Asia, it is the group’s contacts with Turkmenistan that have been most notable. Ashgabat has a deepening economic stake in Afghanistan, which it views as an important transit for ...

Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan have signed a key railway agreement aimed at enhancing regional trade and connectivity.

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But Afghanistan's northerly neighbors in Central Asia have taken a different attitude toward the militant group this time in crafting a relationship. When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan ...

Scott Worden, who heads the Afghanistan and Central Asia programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace, thinks that Central Asian governments overestimate Washington’s leverage.

In the course of the meeting, Tokayev also stressed that Kazakhstan intends to continue implementing humanitarian and ...

Central Asia and Afghanistan are the “in between” states and must hang together, as the man said, so they can deal successfully with the regional hegemons, Russia, China, ...

When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan 25 years ago, almost everyone was against it. But Afghanistan's northerly neighbors in Central Asia have taken a different attitude toward the militant ...