Till Mostowlansky reviews the new book by Madeleine Reeves about one of Central Asia's "hot spots" in the Ferghana Valley. I know, and have great respect, for both Till and Madeleine.

Ferghana also has a tradition of resistance to central authorities. During the Russian civil war, it took the Bolsheviks more than a decade to quell the Basmachi guerilla bands and to establish ...

Ferghana’s deputy governor, Khurshidbek Ahmedov, who returned to Uzbekistan to help the county develop, aims to improve tourism and attract investment to the exclaves.

Mamadaliyev is one of 130 farmers who left their native Ferghana Valley to try their hand in Karakalpakstan earlier this year as part of a government initiative. The main draw was the sheer amount of ...

Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are active fronts in the wider conflict against violent extremism centered on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Although these states are less prominent in discussions ...

Meanwhile, Ferghana, a tranquil, somnambulant city, where giant sycamore trees blanketed apartment buildings from merciless sunshine, became a cradle of unusual art.

Uzbekistan is already shipping freight to and from the Ferghana Valley by road, only using the international rail route for moving oil and petroleum products. Uzbekistan reportedly pays about $25 ...

Hidden in a remote Central Asian gorge, thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste are one landslide away from contaminating the water supply for the whole Ferghana valley, home to millions of ...