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Friday, January 30, 2015 - 07:23
A Tajik militant claiming to be fighting alongside the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria has told RFE/RL's Tajik Service, Radio Ozodi, that his goal is to introduce Shari'a law throughout the world, including among Native Americans.
Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 06:32
The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan discussed potential; cooperation in energy and transport, including a prtoject for an Afghanistan-Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey transport link, and plans for Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's official visit to Ankara in March.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:27
A jailed Azerbaijani human rights activist's social defender and supporter has been attacked in Baku.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:25
The Georgian Foreign Ministry says Beruchashvili will meet with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and other congressional and government members as well as think tank researchers and journalists as part of a group meeting with Central and Eastern European foreign ministers during her weeklong visit.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:23
senior Russian military official says Moscow wants to strengthen the Tajik army as "an outpost of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Central Asia."
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 06:15
A top NATO official says the alliance and Georgia are working to open a joint training center in Georgia.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 06:13
Twenty Georgian media freedom and human rights groups joined more than a dozen news outlets in condemning a government-proposed bill criminalizing "strife-inciting calls."
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 06:11
Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security (SCNS) has announced an operation last week in the southern Osh Province led to six suspected terrorists being taken into custody and weapons and ammunition being seized.
Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 06:25
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was in Turkmenistan on January 22 for the second day of a two-day official visit. The two discussed construction of a proposed natural gas pipeline linking Turkmenistan with India through Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 06:26
Against a backdrop of ever-growing Central Asian fears over the threat posed by Islamic State (IS) militants, the director of a Bishkek-based think tank has claimed that the Sunni extremist group has allocated around $70 million to destabilize the situation in Central Asia.