Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first player to score at six World Cup tournaments as Portugal thrash debutants Uzbekistan.
China is the region’s top trading partner, but Russia and the US both have a presence, too.
Dedicated to his art form, Abdullaev was embraced by unorthodox artists in ex-Soviet republics.
A new album of rare grooves from Soviet Central Asia reveals an era when the region was a crucible for musical fusion.
The ‘Korean Wave’ has breathed new life into Korean communities first exiled to central Asia by Stalin – but at a cost.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev says Uzbekistan also interested in buying more oil and gas from Russia.
Indonesia and Iraq will fight for the last remaining Olympic football spot in the U23 Asian Cup bronze medal match.
Most leaders tread a careful line to avoid conflict as Moscow tries to uphold its relevance in a vast neighbourhood.
Twelve years ago, an Uzbek hitman tried to kill an exiled imam in Sweden. The rest may not be history, just yet.
![A monument marks the resettlement of 172,000 ethnic Koreans from the far east of the USSR to the Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in 1937, as a sign of gratitude to the Uzbek people in the Korean park in Tashkent, on the 80th anniversary of the displacement, in 2017 [Marina Rich/Shutterstock]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/shutterstock_671509540-1-1725709809.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Japan's Mao Hosoya, left, celebrates after scoring during an Under 23 Asian Cup semifinal against Iraq [Hussein Sayed/AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AP24120652454224-1714466497.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
