Kyrgyzstan

The deal for a joint air defense system between Kyrgyzstan and Russia was approved by the parliament on Wednesday, one day before Russian President Vladimir Putin was scheduled to visit the Central Asian nation. According to...

Kyrgyz and Tajik border guards exchanged fire near their disputed border on Thursday, according to Kyrgyzstan’s border service, which added that the two nations had had talks to de-escalate tensions. Border towns in the two impoverished...

Kyrgyz Prime Minister Kubatbek Boronov has resigned after huge opposition protests. Opposition groups stormed the parliament building, the presidential palace, and the main security building on Tuesday. Protesters forced the Election Commission to cancel the results...

Jeenbekov scored 54 percent of the October 15 ballot viewed as Kyrgyzstan’s most competitive election since independence, with oligarch opponent Omurbek Babanov taking more than a third of votes cast. Kyrgyzstan’s new president Sooronbay Jeenbekov was...

News Hour: A Turkish cargo jet crashed near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport on Monday, killing at least 37 people, most of them residents of a village struck by the Boeing 747 as it tried to land in...

News Hour: AFC U-16 Women’s Championship 2017 qualifier host country Bangladesh went on a goal splurge in their Group C match on Wednesday crushing Kyrgyzstan by a huge 10-0 goals margin at Bangabandhu National Stadium. Bangladesh...

News Hour: An explosion has occurred around the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek, reports Interfax news agency citing a local emergency ministry’s representative. There are no confirmed casualty figures yet, reports Aljazeera. “The...