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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2016 file photo, Uzbekistan's Minister for Foreign Affairs Abdulaziz Kamilov addresses the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. Taliban and Uzbek officials say the head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar led a delegation to Uzbekistan to meet senior Foreign Ministry officials in a rare diplomatic foray, and the strongest sign yet of the insurgency's increasing political presence in the region. Taliban political chief Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai represented the insurgents in the four-day talks that ended Friday, Aug. 10, 2018.(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Taliban’s political stature rises with talks in Uzbekistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Why America must welcome the ‘Uzbek Spring’

By S. Rob Sobhani

Trial underway for refugee who challenged NSA surveillance

By KATHLEEN FOODY - Associated Press

A man works to untangle the national flag flown from the Russian Embassy, after it became entangled on its staff at the embassy in London, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Britain announced Wednesday it will expel 23 Russian diplomats, the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War, and break off high-level contacts with the Kremlin over the nerve-agent attack on a former spy and his daughter in an English town.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

The Latest: Russian lawmaker: US had access to nerve agent

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gestures as she answers questions while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Latest: Trump slams visa lottery after NYC attack

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This undated photo provided by the St. Charles County Department of Corrections in St. Charles, Mo., via KMOV shows Sayfullo Saipov. A man in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists along a busy bike path near the World Trade Center memorial on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017, killing several. Officials who were not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity identified the attacker as Saipov. (St. Charles County, Mo. Department of Corrections/KMOV via AP)

Homeland of bike path suspect known for poverty, suppression

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

A police officer stands guard next to bicycles Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, that lie on a bike path at the crime scene after a motorist Tuesday drove onto the path near the World Trade Center memorial, striking and killing several people, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump blames Schumer for bipartisan visa law

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

Bicycles and debris lay on a bike path at the crime scene where investigators work after a motorist earlier in the day drove onto the path near the World Trade Center memorial, striking and killing several people Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

The Latest: Trump says NYC suspect should get death penalty

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Japan's Yosuke Ideguchi is congratulated by teammate Yuto Nagatomo, right, after scoring Japan's second goal against Australia during their World Cup Group B qualifying soccer match in Saitama, Japan, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Japan qualifies for World Cup, Syria still has a chance

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Son, Ki recalled for South Korea’s crucial qualifying games

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TRAVEL: Uzbekistan: Where religious tolerance prevails

By L. Todd Wood

In this photo taken on Thursday, April 6, 2017, visitors attend the exhibition of renowned avant-garde collection from the Savitsky State Art Museum of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan, opened in the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum in Moscow, Russia. More than 200 paintings from the Savitsky State Art Museum of Karakalpakstan went on display in Moscow, a rare traveling exhibit from the gallery widely regarded as having the world's second-best collection of Soviet avant-garde art. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Renowned Soviet avant-garde art collection comes to Moscow

By JIM HEINTZ and VITNIJA SALDAVA - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the unveiling ceremony of a monument to Vladimir the Great, who is credited with making Orthodox Christianity the official faith of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, on the National Unity Day outside the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. When Alexander Zemlianichenko started working as an AP photographer in Moscow, the Soviet Union was nearing its demise. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

The fate of religious freedom in the former USSR, 25 years after its collapse

By Kelsey Dallas - Deseret News

The death of Mullah Mohammad Omar (center) was confirmed by the Taliban, which postponed a second round of talks with Kabul. (Associated Press)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Islamic Uzbek movement swears allegiance to ISIS

By Sean MacCormac

FILE - In this Saturday, April 2, 2011 file photo, Gulnara Karimova photographed just after a display of creations of 'Guli' collections at the Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia. Swiss authorities have opened a money laundering investigation into the eldest daughter of Uzbekistan's authoritarian president, Islam Karimov, related to that country’s telecommunications market, Switzerland’s attorney general’s office said Wednesday March 12, 2014. The investigation into Gulnara Karimova, a glamorous and wealthy diplomat, pop singer and businesswoman, also has triggered new leads abroad, particularly in Sweden and France, the prosecutors’ office in the Swiss capital Bern said in a statement. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, file)

Swiss open money-laundering probe of Uzbek figure

By JOHN HEILPRIN - Associated Press

Iran players celebrate after beating South Korea during the Asian zone Group A qualifying soccer match for the 2014 World Cup in Ulsan, South Korea Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Iran won 1-0. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Do-hun)

World Cup 2014: Iran, South Korea, Australia qualify for Brazil

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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said he is still torn on what to do with some of the enemy combatants in the war on terrorism captured overseas the U.S. holds. His father, Ron Paul, advocates closing the Guantanamo Bay prison. (Associated Press)

PAUL: Security precautions for immigration reform

By Sen. Rand Paul

TeliaSonera denies charges of Uzbekistan bribery

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

**FILE** Ethnic Uzbeks walk on Uzbekistan territory on June 18, 2010, after crossing the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border near the southern city of Osh as Uzbek border guards look on. (Associated Press)

Uzbekistan’s gas shortage sparks calls for reform

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

**FILE** Russian President Vladimir Putin walks prior to a Sept. 26, 2012, ceremony of receiving credentials in Moscow's Kremlin. (Associated Press)

Kyrgyzstan risks regional water fight, as Russia waits in the wings

By Ruby Russell and Askar Erkebaуev - Special to The Washington Times