The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is expecting concrete proposals from Afghanistan with regard to securing cooperation, Secretary-General Vladimir Norov told Sputnik on Tuesday

The Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) has claimed responsibility for attacking a border post on the Tajik-Uzbek border, the US-based SITE Intelligence Group monitoring extremist activities reported on Saturday

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will attend the meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) slated to take place in the Turkish city of Antalya on Saturday, Tasnim News Agency reported, citing Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Abbas Mousavi

Russian, Azerbaijani, Tajik, Kyrgyz and Uzbek special services have thwarted activities of 13 cells of international terrorist organizations and have detained 138 militants in 2019, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov said on Thursday

The people who have staged at attack on the border crossing checkpoint at the Tajik-Uzbek border are members of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia), and they have admitted preparing to stage terror attacks, a representative of the Tajik State Committee for National Security told Sputnik on Wednesday

The Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO PA) on Tuesday proposed re-electing the speaker of the lower house of Russian parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, as CSTO PA chairman

The Mufti and Chairman of the Council of Senior Scholars of Tajikistan, Said Makram Abdul Qadirzadeh, has hailed the UAE leadership's tradition of religious tolerance toward non-Muslims.