Turkmenistan

In it, he said, the balance of power would pivot around Asia’s heartland—basically, the “stans,” from Kazakhstan in the north through Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, to Pakistan in the south.

So far only a handful of countries worldwide, including Turkmenistan, Indonesia and Micronesia, have announced plans to make vaccines mandatory for all adults.

Apple’s upcoming encrypted browsing feature, for instance, won’t be made available to users in certain authoritarian regimes, such as China, Belarus, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Uganda and the Philippines.

Previously, she roamed the world as an astronomer and served with the Peace Corps in Turkmenistan.

The giant irrigation projects began in the 1960s in the dry lands of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

To the north, Jowzjan borders on the Amu Darya River and Turkmenistan, a former part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

They are important in a way that a Kyrgyzstan or a Turkmenistan simply is not.

Tehran has been actively working against Israeli-Turkmen relations, but Turkmenistan has fiercely asserted its neutrality.

Her route is well planned, yet somewhere—on the streets of Tehran, in a yurt in Turkmenistan—Lin-Liu loses her way.