SHARJAH, 8th October, 2025 (WAM) -- His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, inaugurated on Wednesday morning the new headquarters of the ...

When the Turkmenistan government announced new streamlined visa regulations in April, people familiar with traveling to the Central Asian nation were unsure what to make of it. Not that there are many ...

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan Turkmenistan's president has abolished the calendar introduced by his late predecessor, who named months after himself and his parents as part of a personality cult, state media ...

“When the international community ignores a country like Turkmenistan, it sends a message that some lives – and some struggles – matter less.” Turkmenistan is one of the world’s most isolated – and ...

Writing from India, Ankit loves anything remotely fictional. He's been watching anime for years now, collecting characters and songs that he cherishes. He also speaks a little bit of Japanese, so feel ...

Chances are you already need a steel ruler for your fixing and making tasks, so why not use one that can do much more than most? That's the idea behind the ten-function Tiruler, which packs a ...

A few kilometers east of Ashgabat, next to modern Anau, the administrative center of the Ahal velayat, lie the magnificent ruins of the Seyit Jamal ad-Din mosque. Once there was a complex consisting ...

The cult of personality built by Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan’s paramount leader, is already well documented. He has unveiled golden monuments to himself in the capital Ashgabat, made ...

Turkmenistan’s authorities have gone to extreme lengths to stop veteran human rights defender, Soltan Achilova, from traveling abroad. Achilova, 75, was scheduled to travel to Geneva for events hosted ...

Turkmenistan has signed a binding agreement to supply natural gas to Iraq for electricity production after authorities in Baghdad agreed to an advance payment scheme and tax concessions. According to ...

Rarely does an industrial accident develop into a major tourist attraction. But when a Soviet exploratory team drilled for natural gas in Turkmenistan more than 50 years ago, they are said to have set ...