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Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan opposed discussion of Xinjiang at the UN Human Rights Council.

Tashkent has also announced it will not return Afghan aircraft flown by pilots fleeing the Taliban last summer.

Letters from Washington, cybersecurity cooperation with China, and negotiating with a bankrupt Taliban. This and more in our weekly briefing.

Middle-class Afghans with the means to navigate Tajikistan’s bureaucracy see the country as a springboard to the West.

That sets them apart from Afghanistan’s other post-Soviet neighbor, Tajikistan.

A severe food shortage crisis is looming in Afghanistan this winter.

Iran and Georgia considered as alternatives.

The Taliban has assured the region’s governments that it has no designs on them, but can it keep more hostile groups in check?

Tajik officials no longer speak about the militants with complete disdain.

Ashgabat may hope expending energy to attain international respectability will improve its chances of tapping global financial institutions for investment.

The government’s lack of capacity helps explain the about-face.