Efforts by Central Asian states to engage with Afghanistan are getting a boost from the United Nations. A recently adopted UN ...

Central Asian nations are increasingly engaging with Afghanistan through economic cooperation, trade, and infrastructure ...

The Israel-Iran conflict has shown that Central Asia’s bid for strategic autonomy is deeply fragile. In a world of unraveling ...

Central Asia is bottled up by an unstable Afghanistan. It would dearly love to open a southern corridor that leads to the ...

A gradual shift has taken place among Central Asian governments in their approach to Afghanistan. While initial responses to the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 were marked by caution, the bordering ...

TNSR Managing Editor Rick Landgraf talks with Charles Ziegler about his latest article, Filling the Void Left by Great-Power Retrenchment: Russia, Central Asia, and the U.S. Withdrawal from ...

It is surprising that no eyebrows were raised in the western states, irrespective of the fact that Central Asia is pro-Russia and Afghanistan is in a quagmire of instability.

Trade between Afghanistan and its neighbors, including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan, is growing rapidly, with projects like the TAPI Gas Pipeline and Trans-Afghan Corridor.

But for Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, known for advocating closer ties with the region, Afghanistan is “utterly ignored right now.” ...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is making the first trip by a Biden administration cabinet official to the former Soviet republics of Central Asia.

NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG) - India seeks to work with Central Asian nations to help provide aid to Afghanistan and ensure a more representative government is in place there, India Foreign Minister ...