The Tajiks consider themselves the main heirs of the trade routes of centuries ago, of the ‘first Eurasian globalisation’ in ...

China-Europe freight rail services experienced significant growth last year. In 2024, trains made 19,000 trips, representing ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

TEHRAN- Since its launch in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has encountered numerous challenges and developments.

Experts reveal that merchants brought domestic cats to China via the Silk Road, supported by new DNA research on ancient cat ...

Scholars studying the Silk Road have traditionally seen mountain ranges as obstacles standing in the way of merchants who plied the trade routes that connected China and western Eurasia.

For millennia, humanity’s greatest leaps forward have been propelled not by isolation but by connection. The historic Silk ...

Although pushed out of Syria, Iran, as a revisionist state, will continue to challenge U.S. strategy in West Asia. Meanwhile, the Abraham Accords between Israel and moderate Sunni Arab states, while a ...

Trains can run on increasingly green grids and move freight in a more energy-efficient manner than vast cargo vessels. For ...