Archaeologists and environmental scientists are tracking a rare event along the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, where ...

Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz nomads survive in one of the most remote, high-altitude, bewitching landscapes on Earth. It’s a heavenly ...

Divers working in Lake Issyk-Kul, a brackish body of water in Kyrgyzstan, say they have mapped a submerged settlement with ...

When a language becomes accessible, it becomes visible. And when it becomes visible, it becomes part of international ...

That after 30 years, various Kyrgyz presidents and Rahmon — who has been Tajik president since 1994 — have not been able to settle the border is a major failing. On September 14, when Kyrgyz and Tajik ...

The latest deadly clashes on the long-restive Kyrgyz-Tajik border drastically alter the situation there and change how the two countries see themselves and each other -- with consequences for the ...

Resettling an entire ethnic group in another country is a monumental task fraught with legal, political, and logistical complications. But that’s what Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov wants to do with 1 ...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov has persuaded parliament to push back the date of the next election by several months, in an indication he may be turning his thoughts towards ...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov resigned on Thursday, leaving power in the hands of a nationalist rival whose supporters freed him from jail last week. The swift transition ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, September 2 (UNHCR) - In an important boost to Kyrgyzstan's naturalisation process, President Askar Akaev recently presided over a ceremony to distribute passports to 69 long-time ...