KABUL (TCA) — More than 2,000 Afghan religious scholars from around the country issued a fatwa, an Islamic directive, on June 4, saying that “the

KABUL (TCA) — Religious scholars attending the two-day International Ulema Conference for Peace and Security in Afghanistan in Saudi Arabia on

BISHKEK (TCA) — The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, in partnership with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), is inviting interested

DUSHANBE (TCA) — In recent years, authorities in Tajikistan have tightened the control of Islam and any Muslim activities in the country, under

DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Tajik government has accused the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) of being behind an attack that killed

BISHKEK (TCA) — The largest Islamic training institute in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is training religious staff with

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Authorities in Tajikistan have accused the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan of being behind an attack that killed

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Authorities in Tajikistan have released the names of five men they say carried out a July 29 attack that left four foreign

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Belarusian authorities have detained a Tajik former soccer player who was prevented from playing in Tajikistan several years ago

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Authorities in Turkmenistan have introduced an unofficial ban on the use of the symbols of the year 2019 featuring the earth pig

ASHGABAT (TCA) — It appears that following verbal instructions issued by the high-ranking authorities police officers in Turkmenistan are trying

BISHKEK (TCA) — For the majority of Islamic countries — including in Central Asia — their relations with China are far more important than any

DUSHANBE (TCA) — The United States Ambassador to Tajikistan, John Mark Pommersheim, on June 25 joined local authorities to celebrate the opening

TASHKENT (TCA) — Security officials in Uzbekistan have come under fire after allegedly detaining dozens of males at a local market in Tashkent

TASHKENT (TCA) — City police in Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent are rejecting claims that dozens of men with beards were detained and forced to

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Police in Tajikistan have detained 27 people on suspicion of being members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, RFE/RL's

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Police in Tajikistan have arrested 113 people on suspicion of being members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, RFE/RL's

DUSHANBE (TCA) — A court in Tajikistan has sentenced 20 people to prison terms ranging between five and seven years, after finding them guilty of

BISHKEK (TCA) — The Tablighi Jamaat Islamic group — which is banned in Central Asia’s Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan but allowed in

BISHKEK -- On August 30, 2016, a suicide bomber rammed his Mitsubishi Delica minivan into the Chinese Embassy compound in