General James Mattis, the head of U.S. Central Command, on Saturday held talks with Takjik President Emomali Rakhmon as Washington seeks continued support for its military operation in next-door Afghanistan.

• March 31, 2012

A guard of honor was lined up for the Kyrgyz President at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport decorated with the national flags of the two countries.

• March 29, 2012

Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan discussed a wide range of bilateral issues during the foreign ministries' consultations, held in Ashgabat, the embassy of Turkmenistan in Azerbaijan said on Thursday.

• March 29, 2012

In the latest in a series of explosive reports on Israel's covert hostilities against Iran, one vigorously denied by both the Israeli government and Baku, Foreign Policy magazine has quoted anonymous US officials saying that Israel has secured access to airbases on Iran's northern border through its well-nurtured defence alliance with Azerbaijan.

• March 29, 2012

Sweden will expand its diplomatic mission in Azerbaijan, Ambassador of Sweden Mikael Eriksson said on Wednesday. Eriksson said the opening of the Sweden Embassy in Azerbaijan, most likely, will take place in autumn 2012.

• March 28, 2012

Today in Moscow Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ spokesman Alexander Lukashevich has said that on 2-3 April Lavrov will meet in Yerevan with the President and the Foreign Minister of Armenia, on 3-4 April in Baku will hold talks with the President and the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan. Already on 4-5 April the Russian FM is expected to visit Kyrgyzstan and then Kazakhstan.

• March 27, 2012

The presidents of the United States, Russia, and Kazakhstan have hailed the success of a project to clean up a huge Soviet-era nuclear test site in Semey, formerly known as Semipalatinsk, in Kazakhstan.

• March 27, 2012

The agreement at a regional conference in the Tajik capital Dushanbe underlines how close ties are between Iran, the United States' arch-foe, and Central Asia.

• March 27, 2012