By adopting the term “Central Asia,” the Soviets further downplayed the region’s Turkic ethnic and historical unity. Today, Turkiye and the Turkic republics embrace the concept of the ...
Central Asian participants eager to learn about China's culture, history and development, valued the opportunity and voiced ...
The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than previously understood.
Around 150 years ago, the Dungan people migrated from China to Central Asia. In 1862, this majority-Muslim ethnic group was struggling against the forced cultural assimilation promoted by the Han ...
High in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that thrived along the ...
Many have expressed surprise at the emerging alliance of Beijing, Moscow and Tehran, which are three starkly different regimes. Do they have anything in common apart from authoritarianism? It is all ...
Today the government is increasingly on the back foot, with the loss of dozens of outposts, bases and strategic cities that ...
Human rights watchdogs say Azerbaijan is in the midst of a vicious campaign of repression. But in global geopolitics, this ...
As North Korean support to Russia increases, I increasingly must write and edit pieces about that “closed off” nation but I ...
Two medieval cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan were bustling centers of Silk Road trade between China, Arabia and Europe. Researchers have now mapped the cities using drone-borne LiDAR.In a ...