BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) – A court in Kyrgyzstan has brought charges of corruption against the capital city’s former mayor and ordered he be kept in custody for two months. Prosecutors said Monday ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday warned that the reinstation of the death penalty in Kyrgyzstan would breach ...

* Fragile calm in Kyrgyz city ravaged by violence * U.S., Russia watch with unease * Some aid struggling to reach Osh residents (Adds Karimov-Ban telephone call) By Dmitry Solovyov OSH, Kyrgyzstan, ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- A passenger jet carrying 90 people, including a Kyrgyz high school sports team, crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday near the Kyrgyz capital, killing 68, government officials ...

A pastor who has been tortured in a prison in Kyrgyzstan, according to U N special rapporteurs, has since suffered traumatic ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia.

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Hiding from the burning sun in the courtyard of a local mosque, Uzbek elders in the Kyrgyz capital said people are too scared for their lives to vote in a referendum on ...