Kyrgyzstan held a parliamentary election on Sunday with many voters disillusioned with the political elite and anxious about the worst economic crisis in two decades.
President Sooronbai Jeenbekov's supporters look likely to win a significant number (...)
Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov ordered "urgent measures" to maintain the rule of law on Thursday after violent clashes between security forces and supporters of ex-president Almazbek Atambayev, who responded by saying he would march on (...)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin was meeting his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in a suburb of St Petersburg at the time of the blast.
St Petersburg is no Leningrad. And Putin's Russia is dramatically different from Mikhail (...)
Russian authorities raided a residential building in St Petersburg on Thursday and found explosives similar to those used by a suicide bomber who this week blew up a metro carriage killing 14 people, two security sources said.
The discovery of the (...)
A Turkish cargo plane flying from Hong Kong has crashed in Kyrgyzstan, killing at least 37 people, most of them on the ground, officials say.
The Boeing 747 TC-MCL aircraft operated by ACT Airlines crashed as it landed in fog at Manas airport, 25km (...)
A suspected suicide bomber on Tuesday crashed a car through the entrance of the Chinese Embassy in the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek, detonating a bomb that killed the attacker and wounded three embassy employees.
The Central Asian nation's interior (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday she had invited Britain's new prime minister Theresa May for talks in Berlin and that she was looking forward to working with her.
"It's our task to work very closely with governments of ally (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday she had invited Britain's new prime minister Theresa May for talks in Berlin and that she was looking forward to working with her.
"It's our task to work very closely with governments of ally (...)
Russia is actively rearming the armed forces of Kyrgyzstan to help it counter the threat posed by ISIS to Central Asia, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was quoted by RIA news agency as saying Wednesday.
Shoigu said the situation in (...)
A decision by U.S. President Barack Obama to send special forces to Syria is strictly focused on fighting ISIS insurgents and does not signify the United States is entering the civil war there, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said.
"President (...)
Kyrgyzstan's security service said Monday it was investigating a YouTube video urging citizens of the ex-Soviet country to move to the "caliphate" declared by the ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria.
The nine-minute clip titled "Message to the People (...)
Six militants killed by security forces in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek Thursday belonged to ISIS, the security police said Friday, adding they had captured another seven members of the same group who were planning attacks.
"Yes, they were all (...)
Flydubai, Dubai's innovative low-cost airline, has taken delivery of the first of three Boeing 737-800NG aircraft financed through a $117.5 million loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank).
Its arrival takes (...)
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Beijing entered its final day on Thursday.
The participants discussed a broad spectrum of political and economic issues, focusing on the situation in Syria, Iran's nuclear program, the Afghan (...)
MOSCOW (dpa) – US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday for an official visit that would include talks on the US military transit center located near the capital Bishkek.
Kyrgyzstan's government has said it wants US forces (...)
Kyrgyzstan begins voting on Sunday to elect a new president who will determine whether bold reforms to create Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy will succeed in the divided and restive former Soviet republic.
A clean election in Kyrgyzstan (...)
SEOUL - South Korea on Friday threatened to bomb North Korea if it tries a repeat of last week's attack, raising its rhetoric after the United States warned of an "immediate threat" from Pyongyang.
Kim Kwan-jin, a retired general, was speaking at a (...)
ASTANA: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should use her impending visits to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to promote concrete human rights improvements, Human Rights Watch said today.
In Kyrgyzstan she should call for a thorough and impartial (...)
BERKELEY, California: Until recently, Kyrgyzstan – a landlocked country in Central Asia with an 80 per cent Muslim population – was one of the safest countries in Central Asia. However, its neighbor Uzbekistan which has a 90 per cent Muslim (...)
The war in Afghanistan is officially spreading to the Central Asian republics. First stop, Kyrgyzstan, warns Eric Walberg
For the moment, the Pentagon is breathing a sigh of relief. Vital US fuel supply flights from its Manas base to Afghanistan (...)
KYRGYZSTAN - Kyrgyzstan's interim government said on Monday it had arrested a "well-known person" on suspicion of fomenting the worst ethnic riots in 20 years, which have killed at least 117 and left cities in flames.
The Interior Ministry in the (...)
KYRGYZSTAN - Ethnic rioting spread Sunday in southern Kyrgyzstan, where at least 80 people have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded. Thousands of Uzbeks fled after their homes were torched by roving mobs of Kyrgyz men.
Fires destroyed much of (...)
Osh, Kyrgyzstan-- Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages and slaughtered their residents Sunday as ethnic rioting engulfed new areas in southern Kyrgyzstan. The government ordered troops to shoot rioters dead but even that failed to stop the spiraling (...)
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages and slaughtered their residents Sunday in the worst ethnic rioting this Central Asian nation has seen in 20 years, sending more than 75,000 Uzbeks fleeing across the border into (...)
OSH, Kyrgyzstan – Ethnic riots wracked southern Kyrgyzstan on Saturday, forcing thousands of Uzbeks to flee as their homes were torched by roving mobs of Kyrgyz men. The interim government begged Russia for troops to stop the violence, but the (...)