Central Asia was long a digital backwater. Over the past decade, however, the region’s five republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—underwent a rapid digital transformation....
The Tablighi Jamaat Islamic group — which is banned in Central Asia’s Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan but allowed in Kyrgyzstan — has caused increasing concerns...
For decades, the Muslim Brotherhood (aka Ikhwan) terrorist organization has succeeded in earning social, political, and – in some countries – government support. The group...
Prosecutors in St. Petersburg are looking for two defendants in the ‘Network’ case to be given up to nine years behind bars. Yuly Boyarshinov, 28,...
The National Security Committee for Kazakhstan says it has arrested a man suspected of plotting a terrorist act in Nur-Sultan, the capital of the Central...
Kazakh authorities say they thwarted several acts of terrorism and arrested two adherents of a “destructive religious cult” who had allegedly plotted them. The arrests...
About 114 citizens of Kazakhstan are still staying in the conflict zones in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, said Nurgali Bilisbekov, deputy chairman of the national...
