Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and his Turkmen counterpart, Serdar Berdimuhamedow, have launched a joint border trade ...

A convoy carrying humanitarian aid departed Turkmenistan on Friday for neighboring Afghanistan, which was hit by an ...

The history of the Central Asian states since independence dawned in 1991 centres around the leaders of the five countries. Even casual observers of the region remember how Nursultan Nazarbayev was ...

In a significant step to end statelessness on its territory, Turkmenistan has granted citizenship to 2,580 people, following issuance of a Presidential Decree on the subject this month. Sixty per cent ...

Two men who escaped one of the world's most secretive and repressive states have told how they were tortured, beaten and raped in Turkmenistan for the "crime" of being gay. When the oil- and gas-rich ...