Turkmen border guards were reportedly involved in a sustained exchange of fire with Taliban forces on January 3, the first known time the two have been in a shoot-out. The facts of the incident are ...

TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan -- Austere control over the lives of citizens in Turkmenistan took another bizarre turn when officials in the ethnically diverse Balkan Province issued a ban on foreign ...

There’s an interesting wrinkle to the $4.6 billion deal that Turkmenistan recently signed with a subsidiary ofChina’s National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to develop Phase Four of the giant Galkynysh ...

The Mosul operation has made the predominantly Turkmen city of Tal Afar the latest focus of Turkey and Iran’s sectarian struggle for influence in post-Islamic State Iraq. Turkish President Recep ...

Turkmen Ambassador to the United States Esen Aidogdyev and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Paul Kapur discussed bilateral cooperation at a meeting at the U.S.

On December 12, there will be massive celebrations across Turkmenistan to mark the 20th anniversary of the day the United Nations officially recognized the country's "permanent neutrality." What this ...

When it comes to controlling the flow of information in Turkmenistan, authorities don’t mess around. Those caught trying to evade government censorship measures to communicate with the outside world ...

Alpaslan Celik, a deputy commander in a Syrian Turkmen brigade, holds handles believed to be parts of a parachute of the downed Russian warplane near the northern Syrian village of Yamadi, near the ...

The statement was addressed to key political leaders and institutions, including President Masoud Barzani, the Kurdistan ...

An Iraqi Turkmen Shi‘ite fighter holds a position on Aug. 4, 2014 in Amirli, Iraq In June, when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) attacked the Iraqi village of Amirli, ...

The Turkmen people of Iran, primarily settled in the northeastern provinces such as Golestan, North Khorasan, and parts of Razavi Khorasan, are one of the country’s vibrant ethnic groups. Iranian ...