A recently released report by the rights watchdog Freedom House concludes that the forced migration of an estimated 100,000 ...

Press gangs are operating in Kazakhstan, trying to fill out the ranks of the country’s military. Draft evasion is prevalent ...

A political standoff, driven by widespread popular discontent with a potential Russian investment deal, entered into its ...

Six top government officials in Armenia resigned November 18, signaling an intention by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to ...

North Koreans may be the highest-profile mercenaries fighting for the Kremlin in the Russia-Ukraine war, but an investigation ...

Warming-caused glacier retreat is a source of “water scarcity, affecting agriculture, hydroelectric power generation and ...

With only three participants, this September research expedition to Georgia’s Gergeti glacier was a modest operation but one ...

Some participants at the COP29 climate conference in Baku are giving it high marks for organization and appearance. The ...

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev got what he wished for in the US presidential election: Donald Trump will return to the White ...

With COP29 seemingly rudderless, momentum for significant reform of the COP operating structure is brewing. An open letter ...

The Uzbek government actively discouraging citizens from becoming mercenaries.