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Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrives at the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Uzbekistan holds parliamentary election without real opposition

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Medal winners, from left, South Korea's Min-Jong Kim, silver, France's Teddy Riner, gold, Uzbekistan's Alisher Yusupov, Tajikistan's Temur Rakhimov, bronze, pose on the podium of the judo men's +100 kg event in the team judo competition, at Champ-de-Mars Arena, during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A complete list of Paris Olympics medal winners

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Future of U.S. trade with Central Asia illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Firming up the future of U.S. trade with Central Asia

By Ariel Cohen and James L. Bacchus

Gulnara Karimova arrives for the screening of the film "The Exodus - Burnt By The Sun 2", at the 63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, on May 22, 2010. Swiss federal prosecutors say they have indicted on Thursday Sept. 28, 2023 the daughter of a former president of Uzbekistan on charges including alleged money laundering, bribery and participation in a criminal network that used “violence and intimidation” to get its way. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

Swiss indict daughter of former Uzbek president in bribery, money laundering case involving millions

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

The FBI seal is pictured in Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10, 2022. The Biden administration said Tuesday that it detected and stopped a network attempting to smuggle people from Uzbekistan into the United States and that at least one member of the network had links to a foreign terrorist group. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

U.S. says a smuggler with terrorist ties helped get migrants from Uzbekistan into the country

By Rebecca Santana and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by Uzbekistan's Presidential Press Office, Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev casts his ballot at a polling station during a snap presidential election in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Sunday, July 9, 2023. Uzbekistan is holding a snap presidential election, a vote that follows a constitutional referendum that extended the incumbent's term from five to seven years. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was elected in 2021 to a second five-year term, the limit allowed by the constitution. (Uzbekistan's Presidential Press Office via AP)

Incumbent Uzbek president wins new term in snap election with token opposition

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Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev speaks during the presidential inauguration ceremony in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. Uzbekistan holds a snap presidential election on Sunday, July 9, 2023, a vote that follows a constitutional referendum that extended the incumbent's term from five to seven years. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was elected in 2021 to a second five-year term, the limit allowed by the constitution. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov, File)

Uzbekistan’s leader poised for landslide victory in presidential election

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In this handout photo released by Uzbekistan's Presidential Press Office, Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev casts his ballot at a polling station during a referendum in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Sunday, April 30, 2023. Voters in Uzbekistan are casting ballots in a referendum on a revised constitution that promises human rights reforms. But the reforms being voted on Sunday also would allow the country's president to stay in office until 2040.(Uzbekistan's Presidential Press Office via AP)

Uzbeks approve changes that could extend president till 2040

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Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The pursuit of alliances: The SCO and China’s Central Asia diplomacy

By Jianli Yang

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, poses for photos with Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of the Afghan Taliban's caretaker government, in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 24, 2022. Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, March 31, 2022 issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country's Taliban leaders. (Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua via AP)

China’s Xi strongly backs Afghanistan at regional conference

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Taliban fighters block roads after an explosion Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. An explosion went off Tuesday at the entrance of a military hospital in Kabul, killing several people and wounding over a dozen, health officials said. (AP Photo/Ahmad Halabisaz)

Outside looking in: After Afghanistan, U.S. scrambles for bases in central Asia

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The cover art for an October 2021 report on "Uzbekistan's Religious and Political Prisoners" published by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is shown here. (www.uscirf.gov) [https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2021-10/2021%20Uzbekistan%20Report_0.pdf]

More than 2,000 religious prisoners languish in Uzbekistan, U.S. agency reports

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan. With American troops withdrawing from Afghanistan, pressure has been mounting for the Biden administration to plan a military evacuation of Afghans who supported U.S. military operations during two decades of war in their country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

U.S. forges new alliances to prep for post-Afghan War reality in Central Asia

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Uzbekistan elects new parliament with no opposition

Associated Press

FILE - This is a Jan. 30, 2019 file photograph of Gov. Phil Bryant, following a bill signing at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Bryant, who is on a trade mission to the central Asian country of Uzbekistan, is accompanied by a number of people from the private sector and state government including Mississippi National Guard Adjutant Gen. Durr Boyles. The Mississippi National Guard and the Uzbekistan military have been jointly training for six years in a state partnership program. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi governor leads trade trip to Uzbekistan

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press