South and East Asia is defined to include Afghanistan, Pakistan and countries east of them. The Middle East includes Southwest Asia from Iran and westward to Turkey and Cyprus plus countries in North Africa. ..…

For example, Turkey has more than 2.5 million Syrian refugees as of the end of 2015, accounting for most of Turkey’s nearly 2.8 million displaced people. And Pakistan has more than 1.5 million refugees from Afghanistan, making up more than half of the 2.7 million displaced people living..…

Three - Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed - were handed over to U.S by warlords Afghanistan. The fourth, Jamal al-Harith, was in Afghan during American invasion, having been captured while trying to get to Turkey from Pakistan. ..…

China commands overwhelming influence with the Central Asian regimes, who have provided it with a transport and trade door opening into Russia, Turkey, and the Caucasus. . Will China take a responsible part in both Central Asia and Afghanistan in the years ahead, contributing its diplomatic..…

Iran, country with population of million and the largest military in the region untouched by in the past 25 years, might retaliate with missiles aimed toward Israel and toward U.S military bases Afghanistan, Turkey, Bahrain and Qatar. ..…

For example, there is significant difference between the reign of Taliban Afghanistan and the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey. ..…

Twelve of the 32 countries in the world with high government restrictions also were in this region (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, India, Laos, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Vietnam). ..…

Finally, from Iran in the west to Pakistan in the east, from Central Asian Republics in the north to the regional powers of India, China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Russia, Bonn Agreement failed to bind Afghanistan's neighbors into the long-term project of building new, more peaceful..…

Indeed, the 20 countries in the region with very high or government restrictions on religion including Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Vietnam and India account for more than half of the population. ..…

Sizeable numbers of Shias (1 million or more) are found in Turkey, Yemen, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Nigeria and Tanzania. ..…

Then, for more than sixty years, Central Asia was cut off from contact with the outside world, as the Soviet Union closed its borders with Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and, later, China. ..…