People visit the Turkmen Textile Expo 2026 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, June 5, 2026. (Photo by Cui Jiaxin/Xinhua) This photo ...

An exhibitor (R) displays a carpet at an exhibition on the Turkmen Carpet Day in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, May 31, 2026. (Photo ...

Turkmenistan's dictator poured $15 billion into 543 marble buildings, record-breaking fountains, and a falcon-shaped airport in the middle of a desert, then priced out every citizen who was supposed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ashgabat is in the grip of an ongoing financial crisis, driving up inflation and food prices. A standard internet subscription ...

For the past few years, the Christmas symbol has been installed in the central part of the capital of Turkmenistan on New Year's Eve, drawing more and more street kids, a sign of the contradictions of ...

This essay is part of a series by American diplomats sharing their impressions of the dramatic early years of Central Asia's independence from the Soviet Union. These memoirs were written at the ...

OCA President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah delivered a speech as part of the Ashgabat 2017 Closing Ceremony ©Uwimanaclarisse/Twitter Berdimuhamedow was invited to bring the curtain down on Ashgabat ...

The city has continued to build since it was awarded the record in 2013, when it had 48,583, 619 square feet of the stone What do you do when you’re an all-powerful leader sitting on one of the ...

A new survey has named Turkmenistan's capital as the world's most expensive city for international employees, illustrating the stark inequalities in a Central Asian state battered by a long-running ...

On the night of September 12-13, there were numerous witness reports from the Turkmen capital of gunfire, and talk of many dead in a battle between police and an armed group. The Turkmen government ...