Rwanda and Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia bordered by the Caspian Sea and largely covered by the Karakum Desert, on Monday, July 14 announced the formal establishment of diplomatic relations, ...

Ashgabat was made the capital of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. The city was built from the ground up but was almost entirely destroyed in the catastrophic 1948 Ashgabat earthquake.

His son, Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, unveiled the city about 30km southwest of the capital, Ashgabat, during a grandiose ceremony attended by Agence France-Presse journalists. The ...

Turkmenistan's longtime leader has unveiled a giant gilded statue of a dog on a busy traffic circle in the capital Ashgabat. Depicted standing proudly on a plinth, the gold-coated canine is an ...