The Israeli regime is set to open a permanent embassy in Turkmenistan near the Iranian border, in what the illegal entity claims to be Tel Aviv’s “growing influence” in the Central Asia region.

The de-facto Taliban government in Kabul has signed a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in the country's northern Sar-e Pul province.

Turkmenistan will hold snap elections next month after President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov announced he is ready to relinquish power to younger people.

Turkmenistan's strongman leader has ordered experts to find a way to finally extinguish a massive five-decade-old fire in a giant natural gas crater in the Central Asian country, dubbed the "Gateway to Hell."