Mirziyoyev announces creation of Ministry for Mahalla and Family Affairs

Uzbekistan extends reforms in air travel sector to bolster tourism

International organisations demand release of Tajik journalist jailed for writing about religion

UN calls on Tajikistan to release jailed members of Islamic party

Bahrain police free 21 Kazakh women from sexual slavery

Kazakh pogrom linked to turf war between criminal gangs

Tokayev fires governor of Jambyl region after clashes in Dungan settlements

Turkmenistan to mark independence anniversary with 300m-tall monument

Jambyl regional officials dismissed following violence in Dungan settlements

Death toll in south Kazakhstan riots rises to 10

Berdymukhamedov appoints son minister

Eight dead, dozens injured in clashes in southern Kazakhstan

Uzbek hokims stripped of control over cotton harvest

Over 100,000 employed in forced cotton picking in Uzbekistan, ILO reports

Turkmen men banned from dyeing hair black

Only one in 1100 defendants acquitted in Tajikistan last year

Tajik journalists and rights advocates call for release of Daler Sharifov, accused of spreading Muslim Brotherhood propaganda

Uzbekistan announced as fourth fastest growing tourism market in the world