BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz security services have detained four people, including an employee of a Russian government agency, on suspicion of recruiting Kyrgyz citizens to fight in the Russian army, ...

Kyrgyzstan is struggling to enforce Western sanctions against Russia. Despite efforts to stop the flow of goods that could support Russia’s defense sector, the country faces major challenges due to ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) – Protesters clashed with police and tried to break into a building housing the parliament and government offices in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Wednesday during a rally to demand ...

The Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan on Sunday held a snap parliamentary election against the backdrop of arrests of opposition figures and the closure of independent media outlets. The vote is ...

New leader says government will allow the U.S. base to continue to operate. BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, April 8, 2010 — -- After frenzied protests that took at least 68 lives in Kyrgyzstan, the ...

The Chui regional court in northern Kyrgyzstan on July 15 rejected an appeal filed by government critic and journalist Oljobai Shakir (aka Egemberdiev) against the five-year prison term he was handed ...

GENEVA, June 14 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said on Wednesday it was extremely concerned about the fate of four Uzbek refugees who are still in detention in Osh, western Kyrgyzstan, nearly a year ...

BISHKEK -- When Kyrgyzstan's authorities seized a massive sand quarry on the outskirts of the capital city, locals who had complained for years about excessive dust from the site breathed easier. But ...

JALAL-ABAD, KYRGYZSTAN -- A month before the deadly ethnic clashes that devastated southern Kyrgyzstan last week, a mob loyal to the recently deposed president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, seized the ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, -- Opposition demonstrators pushed past riot police and seized the presidential headquarters Thursday in this Central Asian country, toppling the government in the third ...

(Reuters) - Here is a timeline on Kyrgyzstan, where three parties agreed to form a coalition government on Tuesday, over the past five years. March 21, 2005 - Osh, Kyrgyzstan's second biggest city, ...