The foreign ministers of countries in Central Asian say they have agreed to increase cooperation against international terrorism and religious extremism after a meeting in the Kyrgyz resort city of Cholpon-Ata.
A private Uzbek TV channel has issued an apology after viewers criticized it for failing to edit out "immoral" scenes from the latest film from U.S. comedian Amy Schumer.
The United States has begun investigating whether uranium imports threaten national security, launching a process that could lead to more tariffs being imposed on imports from Russia and Central Asian countries.
A date has been set for a trial over a bus fire that killed 52 Uzbek nationals in Kazakhstan in January.
Uzbek journalist Muhammad Bekjon has reunited with his family in the United States more than a year after being released by the Central Asian nation, where he had spent amost 18 years behind bars.
The man in charge trying to save Olympic boxing is fighting to clear his reputation amid allegations that he is an Uzbek crime boss with ties to the global heroin trade.
Belarusian authorities have refused asylum to a transgender woman from Uzbekistan who says she will face torture and abuse if she goes back.
An Uzbek woman says she was "permanently scarred" by a humiliating strip search, and could do without all the public attention her videotaped ordeal attracted.
At a provincial Uzbek medical facility patients often wait for hours for doctors to return from street cleaning, a compulsory practice still common across the country.
Two Uzbek policemen were arrested after RFE/RL obtained shocking video of them forcing a female detainee to strip naked.
A provincial court in Uzbekistan has convicted an Uzbek-born U.S. citizen of links to a militant group and calling for the overthrow of the government but imposed only a $67 fine for the offenses committed almost two decades ago.
Governments in Central Asia continue to use, and some would say abuse, the right to appeal to international law enforcement agencies to apprehend citizens of Central Asian states who have fled their homeland.
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