Over 400 Kyrgyz prisoners stitched up their mouths on Tuesday as part of a nationwide hunger strike that has spread throughout the country's pre-trial detention facilities, Kyrgyz human rights ombudsm

Kyrgyzstan's Health Ministry said the Soviet-built Tu-134 jet was carrying 95 passengers and six crew when it crash-landed in deep fog today at the airport of the southern city of Osh.

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A court in Kyrgyzstan has begun hearing the trial of the exiled former president on charges he ordered the deadly shooting of a crowd of demonstrators.

A court in Kyrgyzstan has begun hearing the trial of the exiled former president on charges he ordered the deadly shooting of a crowd of demonstrators.

Voters in Kyrgyzstan overwhelmingly backed a new Constitution in a controversial referendum slammed by Russia as risking a resurgence of unrest after deadly ethnic clashes, according to results on Mon

Russian troops will be deployed to guard some strategic sites in Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian country’s interim leader Roza Otunbayeva said on national radio on Friday.

Kyrgyzstan’s interim government on Wednesday blamed toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev for hiring “provocateurs” to instigate the deadly riots in the south of the country.