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.

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan's southern city of Osh have declared a state of emergency after mudslides and flooding caused by heavy rains killed at least four people on July 14. As of July 15, the deaths ...

At least five people are known to have lost their lives when the Ak-Buura River burst its banks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan's second largest city, on July 14. The current was so strong that some victims' ...

OSH, Kyrgyzstan, May 12 (UNHCR) - On the first anniversary of the violent events in Andijan, eastern Uzbekistan, Haitvoy* has every reason to sigh. The 29-year-old Uzbek has been in exile in ...

OSH, Kyrgyzstan, April 8 (Reuters) - Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev is in the southern city of Osh, his main power base, after fleeing the capital Bishkek following violent protests, a witness at ...

OSH, Kyrgyzstan, August 26 (UNHCR) - Ravshan and his wife Feruza work in the fields from dawn to dusk, slaving 14 hours every day under the hot sun with few breaks to eat or rest. Their children and ...

Too often opportunities concentrate within capital cities or designated special economic zones, and thereby render the rest of the country peripheral.

OSH, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed on Friday when ethnic conflict flared in Kyrgyzstan's second-largest city Osh, the worst outbreak of violence in the Central Asian state ...

Barely two weeks after ethnic purges left many minority Uzbek communities in smoldering ruin, about two-thirds of Kyrgyzstan's voters went to the polls Sunday to peacefully and overwhelmingly approve ...

Two months after a coup ousted the repressive government of Kyrgyzstan, violence has returned to the Central Asian state. Ethnic Kyrgyz gangs are targeting ethnic Uzbeks in the cities of Osh and ...