This video explores one of the strangest places on Earth: Turkmenistan, a secretive desert dictatorship hiding the Darvaza ...

Turkmenistan has begun channeling water across hundreds of miles to create a lake in the heart of a barren desert, state media reported Thursday, in a Soviet-style engineering feat that some experts ...

Turkmen leaders are determined to revive life in the country’s barren sands with a grandiose water project. The government is pumping run-off water from irrigated cotton fields and is channeling it ...

Turkmenistan’s authoritarian president has called for the end of one of the country’s most iconic sights – a flaming natural gas pit in the desert known as the Gates of Hell. The crater in the village ...

Turkmenistan, long considered one of the world’s most isolated nations, is cautiously opening to tourism through new e-visa reforms and global marketing campaigns. From the flaming Darvaza Gas Crater ...

Scientists warn climate change is accelerating desertification of the land - Copyright AFP Nikolay Vavilov Residents in the remote Turkmen village of Bokurdak have ...

Turkmenistan, a Central Asian country where sandy deserts account for 80 percent its territory, is prepared to pay 1 million pounds ($1,289,000) to British company Andrew Bowen Ltd. for 10,000 tons of ...

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) The president of the Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan says he's going to build the first golf course in this desert nation. The ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) The ...

Bokurdak (Turkmenistan) (AFP) – Residents in the remote Turkmen village of Bokurdak have long depended on the Karakum Desert for their livelihoods, cultivating every square metre they can in a ...