A new study delivers a stark warning that Central Asia has overshot its environmental safety limits concerning land footprint ...

FILE - Women representing more than 20 countries take part in a Naturalization Ceremony, in San Antonio, March 8, 2024. The U.S. immigrant population from South and Central Asia is climbing.

Northern Africa, Central and West Asia is a diverse region characterized by relatively low but increasing cancer incidence rates. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in both sexes combined in all ...

Central Asia, however, bucks this trend in the former Soviet space. Tajikistan leads the pack, with the UN predicting a growth of a staggering 119 percent between 2015 and 2100, swelling the ...

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand ...

The team thinks Tashbulak existed between roughly 730 C.E. and 1050 C.E. with a population in the thousands, while Tugunbulak existed between 550 C.E. and 1000 C.E. with a population in the tens ...

According to data compiled by the World Population Review, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan all ranked near the top globally in terms of the number of auto-related fatalities per million ...

Birthright citizenship ruling handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. How many people gain citizenship this way?

Together these six countries are home to about 85% of Asia’s Muslim population and more than half (53%) of the global Muslim population. About half of the Muslim population within Asia lives in South ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes conducting the 2021 population census in Kazakhstan with the inclusion of a component on nationality and statelessness. UNHCR is pleased to cooperate with the ...

Chronic underinvestment in R&D in Central Asia (chapter 14) – no country spent more than 0.13% of GDP on R&D in 2018 – has spawned a range of systemic challenges that are holding back research and ...