Moscow says it will not seek the ouster of Assad, as international negotiators again fail to reach a breakthrough on the crisis in Syria.

• December 10, 2012

The unscheduled meeting, taking place on the side of a wider international security conference in Dublin, Ireland, marks an intensification of diplomacy just three days after CBS News reported Syria's isolated regime was preparing its chemical weapons for possible use in bombs.

• December 6, 2012

Russian company Rosatom has started investing in the Turkish Akkuyu nuclear power plant project, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying today by the newspaper Sabah.

• December 5, 2012

Access to the website of RFE/RL's Tajik service, Radio Ozodi, has been blocked in Tajikistan since last night, only days after authorities blocked Facebook inside the country.

• December 1, 2012

Russia is not delivering "destabilizing weapons" to Syria, even though there was no UN embargo in place, said the head of Russia's Presidential Administration on Friday.

• December 1, 2012

North Korea is to carry out its second rocket launch of 2012 as its youthful leader Kim Jong-un flexes his muscles a year after his father's death, in a move that will likely heighten diplomatic tensions and draw criticism from Washington.

• December 1, 2012

Iran has demanded the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) immediately close its investigation into allegations Tehran has a military dimension to its nuclear program.

• November 30, 2012

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has received the delegation headed by Sudan's Presidential Assistant Nafi Ali Nafi, the Azerbaijani foreign ministry said today.

• November 23, 2012