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ISFARA, Tajikistan -- Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has assured residents of the country’s volatile Vorukh exclave within Kyrgyzstan that it will not be part of any land swap between the neighboring ...

Central Asia's impoverished and densely populated Ferghana Valley usually grabs the headlines when violence explodes in one of its cities, such as Osh in 2010 or Andijon in 2005. But some of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lithuania announced this week it had blocked and fortified a bridge over the Nieman River linking it to the Russian exclave of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NATO's Baltic states are preparing for an escalation in tension after ...

Uzbekistan has approved a development plan for the Ferghana Valley exclave of Sokh, a slice of territory entirely within Kyrgyzstan, that envisions the resumption of flights to the mainland and tax ...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has raised the prospect of ceding control of an occupied exclave of Azerbaijani territory inside Armenia. But it remains unclear if that is a signal of an ...

Editor’s note: On June 21st Russia threatened to punish Lithuania with actions that would have a “serious impact” after the Baltic state blocked the transport of some goods to and from Kaliningrad ...

The member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation are bracing for increased tension after a Russian warning to Lithuania for enforcing European Union restrictions on specific commodities ...