People visit the Turkmen Textile Expo 2026 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, June 5, 2026. (Photo by Cui Jiaxin/Xinhua) This photo ...

Trainers clad in ornate uniforms and traditional white fur headgear led golden-bedecked stallions round a stage arena at an ...

Turkmenistan is courting a public health calamity because officials are systematically denying an HIV infection problem, experts say. Foreign and local HIV experts and medical workers assert ...

ASHGABAT, May 2 (Reuters) - From a brightly lit, open-plan office Azat Seyitmuhammedov runs an e-commerce startup, ⁠Wabrum, ⁠that he founded almost a decade ago. In Berlin or San ⁠Francisco, this ...

By Eurasianet While Turkmenistan’s insular, authoritarian government is taking baby steps to open the country’s economy to ...

An exhibitor (R) displays a carpet at an exhibition on the Turkmen Carpet Day in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, May 31, 2026. (Photo ...

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - From a brightly lit, open-plan office Azat Seyitmuhammedov runs an e-commerce startup, Wabrum, that he founded almost a decade ago. In Berlin or San Francisco, this ‌would be ...

A large Azerbaijani delegation led by Minister of Culture Adil Karimli has arrived in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, ...

This essay is part of a series by American diplomats sharing their impressions of the dramatic early years of Central Asia's independence from the Soviet Union. These memoirs were written at the ...