National carrier Turkmenistan Airlines resumed flights to the European Union on Saturday after a 10-month hiatus triggered by an EU ban.

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani issued on Sunday Amiri Decision No 33 of 2019 appointing Khamis Rashid Mahdi al-Kaabi as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Costa Rica.

Ex-Soviet Turkmenistan's strongman leader broke ground on a new and presently nameless city close to the capital Ashgabat Wednesday.

President Ashraf Ghani on Friday inaugurated construction on the Afghan section of a major regional gas pipeline.

Asian neighbours Turkmenistan and Afghanistan on Monday opened the first section of a $2 billion link connecting their two countries by rail for the first time and set to extend to Tajikistan.

An international flight carrying Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Hungary made an emergency landing in Turkmenistan after technical problems, officials said on Sunday.

Thousands of demonstrators from Afghanistan's Hazara minority marched through Kabul on Monday to protest against the planned route of a multimillion dollar power transmission line.