2 year agoConfirmed: A power outage has knocked out internet connectivity in multiple Central Asian states with Uzbekistan heavily impacted; metrics also indicate impact to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan with signs of recovery
Uzbekistan halted electricity exports to Afghanistan due to blackout
Tokayev urged Xi Jinping to intensify construction of "belt and road" corridors at "China - Central Asia Forum"
Electricity supply of Almaty fully restored
Airports of Uzbekistan resumed work after blackout. Uzbekistan power supply restoring after energy grid of the country disconnected from joint Central Asia grid
In Kazakhstan, cryptocurrency miners were disconnected from electricity until February. The management company cited the tension with maintaining the balance of electricity and capacity in the unified energy system of the country as the reason.
Shardara hydroelectric power station in the south of Kazakhstan stopped electricity generation due to an accident in the power system
Massive blackout in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan after failure in joint energy system. Multiple power stations shutdown after failure. No water, airport is not working in Bishkek
The blackout in Kyrgyzstan did not affect the combat readiness of the Russian military base, the Russian Central Military District said. Its units are serving regularly, no violations in the combat control system have been noted.
Tashkent Airport has suspended domestic and international flights
Taliban raided a house in Kandahar and took four employees of former government in their custody. Imam of Taleghan grand mosque in Takhar, who was a staunch critic, was arrested for his anti-Taliban sermons; an arrest which was preceded by a shootout
Taliban killed ten NRF fighters in a night foray in Kashanda district of Balkh
2 year agoTaliban intelligence GDI claimed seizing large cache of weapons, ammo and explosives in Nangarhar
Deborah Lyons, UN envoy in a meeting with Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taliban MoI today, urged Taliban leadership to "probe issue and secure the liberty of the missing Afghan women activists", who were reportedly abducted from their homes
The body of a taxi driver from Tajikistan with a cut throat and stab wounds to the chest was found in a car at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport
Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 2 km NW of Nahrīn, Afghanistan
2 year agoTaliban spox has posted a "joint statement" on the first day of meetings held in Oslo, Norway
2 year agoISKP is claiming responsibility for the assassination of a Taliban member in Taloqan, Takhar and seizing his weapon
Investigative journalist Bolot Temirov detained in Bishkek
2 year agoSaadi Khalidi, an anti-government Iranian Kurd living in Kabul city has been assassinated by unknown individuals
Report: A local Taliban commander has been assassinated by unknown gunmen in Taloqan, Takhar
Protest in Zhanaozen demand to stop political persecution of activists
2 year agoAfghanistan: The Taliban will hold talks with Western officials in Oslo next week on human rights and humanitarian aid in their first official visit to the West since returning to power
2 year agoLocal sources confirm that Mufti Burjan, TTP senior commander and shadow governor for Malakand region of Pakistan, was injured in the IED blast in Kunar which targeted his convoy. His driver has been reportedly killed. Unclear who is responsible for the blast
4 killed and 26 injured in Lahore blast. A newly formed separatist group, Balochistan Nationalist Army claimed responsibility for the attack in Anarkali bazar
Kyrgyz citizen Cholponbek Sydykov was found by the staff of the diplomatic mission in one of the hospitals in Almaty with both legs and ribs broken
2 year agoSirrajuddin Haqqan, Taliban's acting minister of interior in meeting with Cihad Erginay, Turkey's ambassador in Kabul said that Afghans in Turkey can return to Afghanistan and asked Turkey's government to help them
Newly declassified videos show for the first time the botched U.S. drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 Afghan civilians
2 year ago"I make no apologies for what I did," ending the US military involvement in Afghanistan, adds @POTUS
2 year agoYoung Afghan boxer killed in crossfire between Taliban and "criminals" in Kabul
Central Asia is the core region of the Asian continent and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, "the 'stans" (as the six countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.
Central Asia include five republics of the former Soviet Union: Kazakhstan (pop. 17 million), Kyrgyzstan (5.7 million), Tajikistan (8.0 million), Turkmenistan (5.2 million), and Uzbekistan (30 million), for a total population of about 66 million as of 2013–2014. Afghanistan (pop. 31.1 million) is also sometimes included. (wikipedia)
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