Iran`s President Masoud Pezeshkian (L) and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev shake hands during the joint Iran-Kazakhstan business forum on December 11, 2025...

President Masoud Pezeshkian`s two-day trip to Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan will feature sealing trade deals and attending a regional peace summit...

Central Asian leaders on Sunday called for strengthening regional security and stability, ensuring coordinated responses to shared risks, and supporting Afghanistan`s integration into regional processes, signaling a potential shift in how the region engages with the Taliban-ruled country...

Kazakhstan ambassador to Afghanistan Alim Khan Yasin Galdiev in a meeting with the acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said that his country has taken the Taliban off the list of groups whose activities are banned in this country...

The transmission of power from Uzbekistan has been halted due to technical problems found in the electricity system that includes the Central Asian states of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kirgizstan...

Kazakh soldiers patrol down a street in Almaty, on January 10, 2022...

A photograph taken on January 10, 2022 shows a general view of a burnt-out Almaty City Administration building in central Almaty, Kazakhstan, following violent protests over fuel price hike...

A serviceman patrols a street in central Almaty, Kazakhstan, on January 8, 2022, after violence that erupted following protests over fuel price hikes...

A photo shows the damaged Nur-Otan party headquarters building in Almaty on January 8, 2022, after violence that erupted following protests over hikes in fuel prices...

© Social media Film director and musician was killed by gunfire during protests as looters tried to hijack a car he was in Influential Kazakh hip-hop artist Saken Bitayev has been killed in the city of Almaty amid unrest that has engulfed the country for a week...

File photo of Kazakh security officers speaking to a gathering of people in wake of violent protests over sharp rise in fuel prices...

Troops are seen at the main square where hundreds of people have been protesting against the government, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on January 6, 2022...

Riot police officers patrol in a street as unprecedented protests over a hike in energy prices spun out of control in Almaty on January 5, 2022...

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. © Sputnik / Mikhail Klimentyev Allied military help needed to quell actions of terrorist bands amid violent civil unrest in Kazakhstan, the president insists The Kazakh president has asked the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for help amid violent unrest gripping the nation, claiming that terrorists were overrunning strategic facilities across the country...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov (file by AFP) Russia has reacted to the ongoing unrest in Kazakhstan, warning against any outside interference into the internal affairs of the Central Asian nation...

© AP / Vladimir Tretyakov Mass unrest in Kazakhstan turns fiery as armored vehicles are seen on the streets Angered by the government lifting price caps on energy, crowds of demonstrators toppled, smashed, and set on fire police vehicles in Kazakhstan’s largest city of Almaty...

People vote during Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election and a referendum on government system in the village of Koy-Tash outside Bishkek on January 10, 2021...

Kazakh police detain a protester in Almaty on March 1, 2020...

A Bek Air plane with 93 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday shortly after taking off, killing at least 15 people, authorities in the Central Asian country said...

The hand-picked successor of Kazakhstan’s longtime ruler has won a sweeping victory in a presidential election, authorities said on Monday, after a voting day marred by protests and arrests...

Russia says the de-escalation zones agreed to be formed in four conflict zones across Syria will be closed for warplanes of the US and its coalition allies...