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Now, as Afghanistan's Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi prepares to visit Islamabad this week, there's a cautious sense that both sides might finally be ready for a fresh start. This isn't ...

A new “Great Game” is unfolding in the Caucasus and Central Asia, echoing the 19th-century rivalry between empires, with a ...

Archaeologists uncover the richest tomb at Tepe Chalow, revealing the Greater Khorasan Civilization, a sophisticated Bronze Age culture.

By Piotr Opaliński Central Asia, for over a century perceived as an arena of struggle between external powers, and during the ...

High in the rugged terrain of the Safed Koh mountain range, where the dry wind whispers tales of warriors and emperors, a narrow ...

One way that Nicola Benedetti has expanded the work of earlier Edinburgh Festival artistic directors has been her use of the Festival’s home ...

By bne Istanbul bureau China and Iran have finalised a major deal on July 15 to electrify 1,000 kilometres of the ...

The region is becoming a laboratory for a new multipolar order – devoid of a hegemonic center, but based on a multi-layered network of connections and partnerships. New players with their own agendas ...