I froze, not wanting to become a statistic on the streets of Ashgabat. He approached me and demanded my camera. I watched helplessly as he began deleting my images.

ASHGABAT -- The authorities in Turkmenistan's capital have temporarily restricted traffic in an effort to give its nearly 900,000 residents a two-week respite from the growing air-pollution ...

The country's capital, Ashgabat, is one of the most unusual capital cities in the world, its streets lined with marble and filled with golden statues despite the economic troubles of the natural ...

There are reports from Ashgabat of women being robbed of jewelry on the streets and even of assailants robbing a 60-year-old woman of money she had just taken from a money machine and then killing ...

Ashgabat was ranked 111 in the 2018 survey, meaning it rose 110 places in a single year. The city is famous for its flashy and expensive architecture, holding the world record for the highest ...

This sprawling city cost some £11 billion to construct, but now its streets appear to be completely devoid of people. Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.

World’s ’weirdest city’ that feels like Disneyland and North Korea combined One city has been branded the world's weirdest city because, despite its beauty, the streets are always empty.

Ashgabat's streets, once traversed by trolleybuses, saw their removal without a clear explanation, leading locals to speculate about aesthetic concerns and presidential commutes.

The pair were in Ashgabat as recently as late April and appeared to have nothing more to say on this occasion than they did then. On the subject of things that keep repeating and not going anywhere, ...