Multimedia: Photo Essays

Dushanbe’s ramshackle airport can boast at least one unique feature. It is the only facility in the world to host both a NATO and Russian air detachment. Both unassuming military outposts share...

Kazakhstan’s former fishing village of Bogen once enjoyed near mythological status in the Soviet Union, its fishermen lionized during World War II for supplying truckloads of their catch form the...

Aman-Plus is a support center based in Bishkek where those with substance abuse problems can obtain clean needles, a bed and help readjust to a mainstream existence. Many of the clients in the...

Opened in December 2001, the Transit Center at Manas serves as the main US and NATO military staging base for troops entering and departing the conflict in Afghanistan. The US Air Force military...