Headlines- A shooting that took place early on Sunday on a pedestrian promenade near to the University of Iowa campus in downtown Iowa City injured at least three students.
- After issuing warnings, Iranian forces turned back two tankers that were trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, citing the ongoing US maritime blockade as the reason.
- Iran claimed that since the war with the US and Israel started on February 28, over 3,400 people had died.
- On Saturday night, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran threatened to strike any ship that approached the Strait of Hormuz.
- India's Ministry of External Affairs called the Iranian ambassador to India to discuss the "serious incident" involving two Indian-flagged ships that were fired upon on Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Iran said that it is examining fresh U.S. proposals that were communicated through Pakistan's mediators, but it has not yet responded.
- Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem vowed on Saturday that his fighters would retaliate against Israeli attacks on Lebanon and stated that the current 10-day ceasefire with Israel cannot be one-sided.
Tag: Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan Holds World Record for Most...
In Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent, 1,946 students gathered to take part in the largest-ever simultaneous robot assembly event. The Uzbek Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation organized the event with the objective of motivating the country’s upcoming engineering generation.
Unpacking Eurasia’s Role in the Afghanistan...
Whatever help governments in Central Asia are extending to Afghan refugees, they are not eager to make it known publicly
Kyrgyzstan extradites journalist to Uzbekistan amid...
The Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security, or GKNB, said it received assurances from their Uzbek partners that Abdullayev would not be ill-treated. The journalist reported being subjected to physical and torture after his arrest in September 2017
Uzbekistan’s Citizen Journalists Test Limits of...
The idea that an unaffiliated citizen reporter in Uzbekistan might dare to confront a policeman would have been near inconceivable a few years ago. Today, many people armed with little more than a phone camera and a Facebook or YouTube account have accumulated huge followings in their mission to hold their government to account
Review: The Vanishing Generation, by Bagila...
Bukharbayeva is one of the only handful of journalists who was present in Andijan in May 2005, when the massacre there unfolded. Her account of those events is at turns anxiety-inducing and jaw-dropping. There is no mistaking that this was a premeditated mass killing of innocents
Uzbek Energy Crisis Sparks Protests
Uzbeks say the country is experiencing one of its worst energy crises, with cars lining up all night for LPG fuel and homes without gas or power
‘No Winners In This Fight!’: Journalists...
Two Uzbek journalists have resigned from their posts at an online news site after the influential Tashkent mayor was accused of threatening and insulting three reporters
A Tale Of Two Uzbek Brothers...
Alisher Bazhorov and his brother Yavlon both work in cafes. While Alsiher runs his own catering business in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, Javlon remains at home in Uzbekistan
Uzbek Governor In Hot Water After...
Speaking at a government meeting last week, Ghaniev said hundreds of women in Ferghana had been reprimanded for wearing Islamic head scarves and a similar number of warnings had gone out to men wearing long beards
Uzbekistan’s invisible Uighurs
These tales of disappearance are easy to find in Uzbekistan, despite the official censorship hanging over the narrative. Farukh is also an ethnic Uighur but holds an Uzbek passport