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Militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) pose for photo in the northern Kunduz Province.

Central Asia in Focus: June 14, 2022

Tashkent police said on June 8 that some 250 members of extremist groups had been identified in Uzbekistan since the start of 2022.

AFGHANISTAN -- An employee of an Afghan trainline walking along a rail track in the center of the Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Dustlik (Friendship) Bridge in Hairatan in northern Balkh Province.

Central Asia in Focus: June 7, 2022

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon was in Iran at the end of May and Uzbekistan at the start of June.

Around a dozen bodies lie wrapped in bags along the ground surrounded by crowd.

Central Asia in Focus: May 31, 2022

Tajik authorities sealed off the eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) and cut communications to the region when unrest broke out on May 16.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyaev.

Central Asia in Focus: May 24, 2022

The biggest crisis in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) of eastern Tajikistan since the 1992-1997 Tajik civil war erupted on May 16.

A man stands in a market observing the round, flat breads typical of Tajikistan.

Central Asia in Focus: May 17, 2022

I’m trying to remember if I ever ate a meal in Central Asia without bread at the table and I cannot think of that happening even once.

Kazakh interim President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (L) and former President Nursultan Nazarbayev (R) attend the Astana Economic Forum in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

Central Asia in Focus: May 10, 2022

Kazakhstan is conducting a national referendum on changes to the constitution on June 5.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov

Central Asia in Focus: May 3, 2022

When Turkmenistan announced there would be a presidential election, everyone knew President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov’s son Serdar would win.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov (R) in Ashgabat.

Central Asia In Focus: Turkmenistan’s Former President Back In Charge

Preview Text: Changes to Turkmenistan’s parliament, China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, Taliban’s electricity supply, update on RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service, and more.

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