When ninth-grade schoolchildren in Kyrgyzstan began classes this year, they discovered a new subject in the curriculum: the History of the Development of Religions. President Sadyr Japarov laid out ...

8th century - Arab invaders conquer Central Asia, including what is now Kyrgyzstan, and introduce Islam. 10th-13th centuries - Kyrgyz people migrate southwards from the Yenisei River region in central ...

The bloody protests that erupted this week in Kyrgyzstan, leading to scores of deaths and injuring hundreds thus far, have paralyzed the small Central Asian country of 5 million people and likely ...

LONDON, July 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kyrgyzstan handed citizenship to the last stateless people on its territory on Thursday in what U.N. officials hailed as a breakthrough in the global ...

Celebrating 20 years of diplomatic relationship between Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan, the people of Kyrgyz have brought a piece of their culture to Pakistan National Heritage Museum at Lok Virsa. The ...

A man wearing a cowboy hat and an American-flag shirt sits astride a Pershing missile. His face has been peeled away, exposing his skull. Nearby, a Kyrgyz grandmother in traditional dress, a naked ...

Today is the one-year anniversary of the Aksy killings in Kyrgyzstan. People are marking the day in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, and further south where the events took place. The issue divided the ...

In a speech at the signing of a historic border agreement between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in Bishkek, Uzbek leader Shavkat Mirziyoev heaped praise on his Kyrgyz counterpart, Sadyr Japarov. "I want ...