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 ...

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan's capital, captivates with its gleaming white marble architecture and unusually spacious, uncrowded ...

Ashgabat was rebuilt from earthquake rubble into a dazzling white marble capital funded by some of the world's largest ...

To outsiders, Turkmenistan's capital has long had a reputation as a difficult-to-reach destination. But it's also gotten tougher lately for many of the country's own citizens. The website Hronika ...

The opening ceremony of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) has taken place in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat. The ceremony was attended by a number of heads of state and government ...

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 ...

Ashgabat, the Turkmen capital with the world’s largest concentration of white marble-finished buildings, has unseated Hong Kong from its three-year perch as the most expensive urban centre on earth ...

Ashgabat is the capital of Turkmenistan, regarded to be the most secretive and isolated country in Central Asia, and where strict and confusing visa requirements means very few people visit it. It ...

ASHGABAT — From a gas crater dubbed the “Gateway to Hell” to the shimmering marble buildings of its capital, Turkmenistan is ...

Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat has overtaken Hong Kong as the world's most expensive city for foreign workers, a survey showed on Tuesday. Beirut jumped to third place in the 2021 Mercer survey from ...

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 ...