German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkmenistan’s president Friday that there is “significant potential” for the countries to cooperate more closely...

Authorities in Turkmenistan are discouraging students from participating in educational exchange programs in the United States, a U.S. Embassy official said Thursday.

An audit has found that Turkmenistan may hold the world’s fourth-largest natural gas field, state-run media reported Tuesday.

Turkmenistan’s highest legislative body unanimously approved a new constitution Friday that increased the president’s powers but also broadened the role of...

Heavy gun battles between a radical Islamist group and security forces erupted overnight in the capital of Turkmenistan _ a rare instance of violence in the...

Turkmenistan has begun allowing private citizens to connect to the Internet, the latest sign that the reclusive Central Asian nation is opening up.The country’s...

Turkmenistan plans to build a soaring $70 million monument in the capital that will outstrip anything built during the ostentatious rule of the late dictator Saparmurat...

Turkmenistan’s president hopes to start a baby boom in the gas-rich former Soviet nation with a plan to reward women who give birth to eight or more children _ a...

Tens of thousands of people on Friday marked the first anniversary of the death of longtime President Saparmurat Niyazov, laying flowers at monuments to the autocratic...

Politics and soccer will mix in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup, which can’t make FIFA happy.South and North Korea will meet in Asian qualifying for the...

Vladimir Putin issued a veiled warning Tuesday against any attack on Iran as he made the first visit by a Kremlin leader to Tehran in six decades _ a mission reflecting...

Eritrea, North Korea, and Turkmenistan are the world’s worst violators of media freedom, according to a list released Tuesday by the advocacy group Reporters...

Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom said Tuesday it agreed to settle Ukraine’s debt for gas supplies, seeming to resolve a dispute that has...

A gunbattle between police and insurgents left 20 suspected militants and four officers dead as violence from Afghanistan’s bloodiest year since the fall of the...

Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have agreed to build a new natural gas pipeline around the Caspian Sea, giving Russia significant control over Central Asia’s...

It was overnight when the Turkmenistan’s President-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov died due to cardiac arrest, the reports said. He was the iron ruler of this Central...

The external affairs ministers of five Central Asian countries have agreed to make Central Asia as Nuclear Weapon free zone. For that, they signed a treaty establishing...