Central Asia

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states leaders' summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 3, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Guneyev/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock gives a statement to the media on February 28, 2024, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Alexander Khvtisiashvili attend a press conference after a ministerial meeting on Trans-Caspian connectivity in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on November 25, 2022. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Taliban security personnel stand guard as a burqa-clad woman walks along a street at a market in the Baharak district of Badakhshan province. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

A general view of the city Baku, Azerbaijan, on September 25, 2023. (Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees Pakistan activists protest in Lahore after Iran launched an airstrike in Pakistan's south-west Baluchistan province on January 19, 2024. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)

American flags and United States Capitol building are seen in Washington D.C., United States on December 28, 2022. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Leaders and officials pose ahead of the 32nd Arab League Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 19, 2023. (Bandar Aljaloud via Getty Images)

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visits the Khast-Imam in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on March 1, 2023. (State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Uzbek Acting Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on March 1, 2023. (State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)