Kyrgyz Deputy Prime Minister Shamil Atakhanov told a session of the parliamentary committee for defense and security that there are some 20,000 members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir party are illegally active in Kyrgyzstan. According to the 24.kg agency, the party members are mainly active in Talas and Chuy Regions in Northern Kyrgyzstan and in certain areas in Southern Kyrgyzstan.

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A global conference discussing the importance of Khilafah and the formation of a unified Islamic government is set to take place in Pretoria on Sunday. According to one of the speakers, UK based Islamic scholar Dr Salim Mohammed, although the event will be discussed in South Africa, the establishment of Khilafah by the Hizbut Tahrir will only be a possibility in Islamic countries. The conference ‘.....

The historical development of radicalism in Central Asia being disputable, the rise of Islamic movements after the dissolution of URSS is quite obvious. The activities of several groups including Hizb-ut Tahrir and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) in political and social fields prove this increase of influence. This matter also occupies the agenda of international actors especially since the .....

Those who think Israel carried out strikes against Syria without consulting the US should ‘go back to kindergarten’. Obama’s strategy of different tactics only has one aim – which is not peace in Syria, Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar says.

In a space of less than three days Israel has bombed Syria twice. Escobar believes this to be a deliberate provocation involving multiple players, and .....

Damascus, Syria (CNN) -- A series of massive explosions illuminated the dark sky over Damascus early Sunday, igniting renewed claims that Israel has launched attacks into the war-torn country.

Syria's government said the explosions were the second Israeli airstrike in three days. The latest target, officials said, was a military research facility outside the Syrian capital. A top Syrian official .....

Beirut: Syrian rebels shot down a military helicopter in the country’s east, killing eight government troops on board a day after opposition forces entered a sprawling military air base in the north, activists said Monday.

In the past months, rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad have frequently targeted military aircraft and air bases in an attempt to deprive his regime of a key weapon .....

In the western media’s telling, the civil war in Syria began and continues as a morality play, good versus evil and for good reason. The regime headed for nearly a decade and a half by Bashar al-Assad has pursued policies of extreme brutality, including large-scale executions of rebellious groups’ women and children.

But could this tale end in a tragedy of unintended consequences? What should .....

We the undersigned organizations reject the 186-page official report dated 22 April 2013 of the Arakan Investigation Commission as follows:

1.    The Rakhine Investigation Commission formed on 17 August 2012 by President  Thein Sein included representatives from various religious and political parties and democracy groups except Rohingya representatives, who have been actual .....

Worried that ethnic cleansing may take place without international attention, Anonymous is preparing an operation in support of Myanmar's minority Muslim Rohingya ethnic group, possibly targeting government officials.

Factions within the global hacker collective Anonymous are preparing to launch a digital campaign in support of the Rohingya – Myanmar’s Muslim minority – who potentially face what a.....

(Reuters) - The force of the dawn attack on a Syrian military site outside Damascus on Wednesday shook the ground, waking nearby residents from their slumber with up to a dozen blasts, two sources in the area said.

"We were sleeping. Then we started hearing rockets hitting the complex and the ground started shaking and we ran into the basement," said a woman who lives adjacent to the sprawling .....