カテゴリー: Uzbekistan
Women recruited as brides for terrorist fighters give rare insight into international network that bombed airportIn 2017, a group of senior Arab fighters travelled from Syria to Afghanistan, to cement the links between Islamic State cells in the two ar…
Joe Biden has said he will cut air support to Afghan forces and target terrorist groups from regional basesAs the US nears completion of its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon is supposed to switch to “over-the-horizon” counter-terroris…
Rapid Taliban advances lead to meeting in Uzbekistan of over a dozen leaders and foreign ministersAfghanistan’s neighbours are stepping up efforts to prevent the country sliding into a full-blown civil war after a rapid Taliban advance that caught the …
Campaigners say widespread homophobia in the conservative Islamic country is being inflamed by calls to decriminalise same-sex unionsUzbekistan’s LGBTQ+ community says it is facing increasing threats and repression after anti-LGBTQ+ protests turned vio…
Photographer Tomer Ifrah travelled between six post-Soviet countries: Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Russia, Belarus, Georgia and Armenia documenting city life on the metro, beginning in Moscow in 2012 and continuing until 2019. The images reveal personal storie…
Calvert 22 Foundation and The Calvert Journal have announced the finalists of the New East photo prize 2020. This year marks the third edition of the competition, which celebrates contemporary photography from eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, and c…
Ancient artefacts from Samarkand will go on display in London before being returnedThe British Museum is to help repatriate six glazed tiles from a medieval memorial complex on the edge of Samarkand, which were brought into Heathrow in a suitcase.The m…
Ancient artefacts from Samarkand will go on display in London before being returnedThe British Museum is to help repatriate six glazed tiles from a medieval memorial complex on the edge of Samarkand, which were brought into Heathrow in a suitcase.The m…
Spanish region’s move comes amid new outbreak; two charged with murder over bus driver assault in France; WHO says coronavirus cases are increasing by 200,000 a dayCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpain’s northern Catalonia r…
The independent Ilkhom theatre in Tashkent opened under Soviet rule in 1976A cherished independent theatre in Uzbekistan is fighting eviction after realestate developers in the booming capital selected its historic location for a new business centre.Th…
Kadyr Yusupov’s family believes his ‘confession’ that he spied for a foreign government was coerced A secret court in Uzbekistan is poised to sentence a retired career diplomat to up to 20 years in prison on a treason charge that his family says is the…
The ancient Silk Road city once had a thriving Jewish population, which has shrunk to around 200On the first night of Hanukah, Benyamin Badalov ascends the platformed bimah in Bukhara’s central synagogue to recite the evening prayer.Among the handful o…