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One littoral state speaks about the Caspian
Turkmenistan called the attack on a vessel in the Caspian inadmissible and named nobody at all. Kyiv answered Tehran the same day, and Baku and Tehran shut each other’s broadcasters.
The strike wave reaches the province of Kazakhstan’s Gulf terminal
US forces announced another large-scale overnight wave of strikes on Iran, and the morning’s imagery includes a destroyed bridge in Hormozgan province, with fatalities reported. Hormozgan is where Bandar Abbas stands, and Bandar Abbas is where Kazakhstan signed its 27-year terminal lease three weeks ago. The war is now taking apart the infrastructure around the bet.
The border that fought two wars gets its first survey posts
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have begun installing the first demarcation posts on their 1,008-kilometer border, starting where their frontiers meet Uzbekistan’s. In 2021 and 2022 this line produced two shooting wars. The concrete now going into the ground is the physical end of a process the two presidents signed on paper in March 2025.
Armenia’s June vote heads to the Constitutional Court, with a 4 July deadline
Seven opposition parties are asking Armenia’s Constitutional Court to overturn the June parliamentary election that returned Nikol Pashinyan’s party to power. The court must finish reviewing the petitions by 4 July, and the election commission has already ordered a recount at several polling stations.
Central Asia moves to pool its disaster data as the mudflows multiply
A regional dialogue in Bishkek this week is pushing for a shared online catalogue of climate disasters. The need is in the count: Kyrgyzstan has logged more than 240 mudflows already in 2026, against 133 in all of 2024.
The Iran war reignites and the Strait of Hormuz shuts again
Iran and the United States traded strikes again on 11 June, and Tehran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all shipping. For Central Asia the effects are higher prices and a southern route to the sea that is shut once more.
Pakistani airstrikes hit Afghanistan, ending a month of calm
Pakistan struck three Afghan provinces early on 10 June, killing at least 13 people by Kabul’s count, most of them children. It broke more than a month of quiet in a war that has killed hundreds.