About 70 people died on Sunday when a Kyrgyz airliner crashed outside Bishkek, capital of the tiny former Soviet Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan.

A party controlled by Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev won a huge majority in a snap parliamentary election, early official results showed on Monday, although opposition…

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have launched a contest to track down Father Christmas somewhere inside the mountainous Central Asian state — a week after Swedish experts reported that…

Angry residents of a town in Kyrgyzstan pulled down a monument to the obscure father-in-law of the country’s ousted president and replaced it with a collection of empty bottles…

Kyrgyzstan’s new acting head of state, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, said on Friday that fresh presidential elections in the Central Asian nation will take place in June. The announcement…

Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev and his family have left the country, reported Russian news agency Interfax on Thursday amid conflicting reports on the whereabouts of the…