Taliban insurgents killed six Afghan security personnel Saturday in two separate attacks, Afghan officials said
Tajikistan will hold a referendum May 22 on constitutional changes that would give veteran president Imomali Rakhmon the right to run for any number of terms,...
hirteen members of an Islamist opposition party went on trial Tuesday in the volatile ex-Soviet republic of Tajikistan, accused of fanning a wave of unrest...
Nominations for the Cesars, France’s version of the Oscars, have been announced, honoring a diversity of talent and themes at a time when the Academy Awards...
Tajikistan's parliament Friday backed changing the constitution to allow the ex-Soviet country's long-serving president Emomali Rakhmon to run for office an...
Ex-Soviet Tajikistan is reinforcing the most most dangerous sections of its border with Afghanistan with more than 1,000 extra troops, military sources told...
Even under extended police questioning, Samy Amimour never hid his disdain for France, his desire to leave, or his belief that the apocalypse was near.
A special Afghan task force has seized more than a tonne of heroin in a raid on an illegal narcotics factory in the northeast of the country, the interior...
Afghan security forces have retaken a district in the north of the country, killing 30 Taliban fighters and capturing vehicles and weapons from the...
Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States will begin talks Monday aimed at reviving the Afghan peace process and eventually ending 14 years of...
Political horse trading over appointments to Afghan police and army commands has created chaos for security forces fighting the Taliban in strategic areas...
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake centred in the Hindu Kush jolted Afghanistan and Pakistan late Friday, leaving dozens of people injured just two months after a...
China's cyber chief rejected criticism Wednesday that the country's Internet was too censored, arguing ahead of a major state-sponsored Internet conference...
At least two people were killed and dozens injured when a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck dangerously close to a high-altitude lake in eastern...
China and Russia will sign nuclear energy, aviation and space deals next week during a visit to China by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a senior...
A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Tajikistan on Monday, US experts said, and state television said one person was killed ten were injured.
Two recent tragedies – the downing of a Russian civilian airliner over the Sinai Peninsula and the terrorist massacre in Paris two weeks later – seemed to...
Weak leadership, misuse of resources and lack of coordination between Afghan security services were the main reasons a strategic northern city briefly fell to...
On a recent morning a small group of pensioners gathered round a monument to Communist leader Vladimir Lenin in a far-flung corner of the bygone empire he...
Russia is worried by "terrorists" massing along the borders of the post-Soviet CIS group of states, but re-establishing Moscow's control over the border with...