Kyrgyzstan summoned its ambassador to Belarus for consultations on Friday after images of the wanted former Kyrgyz president’s brother made near a restaurant in Minsk appeared on the internet.

• August 24, 2012

Objections by India to the construction of the US$12 billion Diamer-Bhasha dam in Gilgit-Baltistan, a disputed area in north Pakistan, have blocked funding for the project from international donors.

• August 21, 2012

US Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake has said his country has no plans to set up a military base in Uzbekistan, following media speculation that Washington was entering a deal with Tashkent on the issue.

• August 18, 2012

Turkish media quoted US ambassador to Turkey as saying that Iran, a close ally of Syria, was providing weapons for Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad's forces.

• August 16, 2012

It is necessary to create a military alliance of Muslim countries. It can be created in order to repel an attack on the Muslim countries, as well as to protect the Palestinian people, the Mehr news agency quoted Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi as saying at today's meeting at the Ministry of Defense.

• August 13, 2012

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry denied media reports about the sale of multiple rocket launchers and anti-aircraft missile systems to Armenia by the Ukrainian side, RIA Novosti reported.

• August 13, 2012

Introduction
Debates about the geopolitical, geo-economic and strategic significance of the wider-Black Sea (WBS) region have become fashionable amongst Western policy makers and the international scholarly community since the end of the Cold War. While the Black Sea represented a “front line” in the stand-off between rival superpower blocks during an age which now seems to have slipped into the bygone days of our youth, the major geopolitical realignments which have taken place in Eurasia during the last two decades have evidently led to our “re-discovery” of one of the world’s most historically significant geostrategic playing fields. READ MORE

• July 31, 2012

North Korea on Friday added a fresh nuclear threat to a propaganda campaign apparently aimed at diverting attention from internecine power struggles and consolidating leader Kim Jong-un’s rule. A spokesman for the North’s Foreign Ministry in a statement said the U.S.’ hostility to the North has reached an ‘extremely reckless level’ where it ‘incites an enormously hostile act insulting the dignity’ of the ruling Kim family.

• July 23, 2012