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KYRGYZSTAN TO DEEPEN RELATIONS WITH CHINA, SAYS NEW PRESIDENT
Kyrgyzstan will deepen relations with China in the spirit of good-neighborliness and strategic partnership, the new President Sooronbai Jeenbekov said here Friday... READ MORE›
IS CENTRAL ASIA A 'HOTBED FOR EXTREMISM'?
As evidence, many cited a string of recent attacks carried out by individuals of Central Asian origin in Istanbul, Saint Petersburg and Stockholm... READ MORE›
KYRGYZ LEADER'S CHOSEN SUCCESSOR WINS PRESIDENTIAL VOTE
The Central Election Commission said former prime minister Jeenbekov had pulled in over 54 percent of the vote, with oligarch opponent Omurbek Babanov taking more than a third of the ballot... READ MORE›
SOORONBAI JEENBEKOV SET TO WIN KYRGYZ PRESIDENTIAL POLL
Sooronbai Jeenbekov, the chosen candidate of Kyrgyzstan's outgoing President Almazbek Atambayev, looked set for a surprise first-round victory in the country's elections, according to preliminary results... READ MORE›
KYRGYZ PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS KICK OFF
According to the Constitution of Kyrgyzstan, the country's president is elected for a six-year term and will not be allowed to run for re-election... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | WHAT WERE CAITLAN COLEMAN AND JOSHUA BOYLE REALLY DOING IN AFGHANISTAN?
Why did Boyle and Coleman, seven months pregnant, decide to go to Kabul?... READ MORE›
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RUSSIA, CHINA VETO U.N. PLAN FOR SYRIAN SANCTIONS
Security Council resolution Tuesday that would have imposed sanctions on 21 Syrian people and organizations linked to chemical weapons attacks in the war-torn country... READ MORE›
DOZENS DIE AS TURKISH CARGO JET HITS HOMES
The Boeing 747 TC-MCL aircraft operated by ACT Airlines crashed as it landed in fog at Manas airport, 25km 15 miles north of the capital, Bishkek... READ MORE›
'IF GENGHIS KHAN WAS ALIVE, HE'D BE HERE'
Kok-boru games are being held at a brand new 10,000-seat hippodrome in Cholpon-Ata on Issyk Kul, a high-altitude lake four hours' drive from Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek... READ MORE›
HOW THE USSR'S EFFORT TO DESTROY ISLAM CREATED A GENERATION OF RADICALS
They did, and by the '70s Islam had made a comeback in much of Central Asia... READ MORE›
SYRIA SAYS U.S.-LED JETS HIT ITS TROOPS, DOZENS REPORTED KILLED
Officials have accused the government of not providing letters to allow convoys to reach other besieged areas in Syria... READ MORE›
'DEMOCRACY WAS HIJACKED. IT GOT A BAD NAME'
The town of Sokh, for example, is part of Uzbekistan, but fully surrounded by Kyrgyzstan, and its 20,000 population are almost entirely ethnic Tajiks... READ MORE›
NEWS ANALYSIS DISCORDANT VERDICTS ON US FORCES IN SYRIA
Is still very much active. The first test is likely to come in Raqqa, the Islamic State's stronghold in Syria... READ MORE›
CARGO PLANE CRASH IN KYRGYZSTAN KILLS AT LEAST 37
Another view as plane debris is seen at the crash site of the Turkish cargo jet near Kyrgyzstan's Manas airport outside Bishkek on Monday... READ MORE›
TRUMP INAUGURATION COMPARED TO 'TWILIGHT ZONE'; SCOTTISH NEWSPAPER SAYS TRUMP PRESIDENCY AMOUNTS TO ALTERNATIVE PRESIDENT
It identified the plane as a Turkish Airlines Boeing 747-400, but the company said it belonged to another Turkish firm, ACT Airlines... READ MORE›
REPORTERS NOTEBOOK JOHN KERRY CONFRONTS HUMAN RIGHTS AS HE ZIPS THROUGH CENTRAL ASIA
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan -- Secretary of State John Kerry seems unlikely to make it to North Korea in his 15 remaining months in office... READ MORE›
RUSSIA, CHINA BLOCK BID BY WESTERN POWERS TO IMPOSE UN SANCTIONS ON SYRIA
As for sanctions against the Syrian leadership, I think the move is totally inappropriate now, Putin said at a news conference... READ MORE›
QUIZZES AND 'POLITE PEOPLE': PUTIN-THEMED PUB OPENS IN KYRGYZSTAN
Putin paraphernalia covers the walls of the new Bishkek bar... READ MORE›
HONG KONG NAMED WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CITY FOR EXPATS
As a result, the British capital is now cheaper than New York, Beijing, Tokyo and Zurich... READ MORE›
PREMIER LI TO START 8-DAY TRIP TO CENTRAL ASIA AND EAST EUROPE
The agreements are one highlight of an eight-day trip in which Premier Li Keqiang will visit Kyrgyzstan, Latvia and Russia... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS DRAFT U.N. RESOLUTION TO SANCTION SYRIA 'INAPPROPRIATE'
I think it is totally inappropriate, Putin told a news conference in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, after meeting his Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev... READ MORE›
KYRGYZ OPPOSITION LEADER OMURBEK TEKEBAYEV DETAINED
The detention of the famous politician Tekebayev at night in the airport looks like the detention of a terrorist, said former Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva... READ MORE›
BRITON FACES FIVE YEARS IN JAIL FOR KYRGYZ SAUSAGE HORSE PENIS SLUR
Briton faces five years in jail for horse penis slur on Kyrgyzstan sausage delicacy... READ MORE›
DOZENS KILLED IN CARGO PLANE CRASH IN KYRGYZSTAN
At least 37 people were killed Monday when a Turkish cargo plane crashed into homes in Kyrgyzstan, authorities said... READ MORE›
LUANDA, ANGOLAN CAPITAL IS WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CITY FOR EXPATS
Angolan capital Luanda has been ranked the world's most expensive city for expatriates reclaiming the title it lost to Hong Kong last year... READ MORE›
CAR BOMB ATTACK IN BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN
Chinese embassy blast Car bomb attack in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan... READ MORE›
NEW YEARS'S DAY GUNMAN LIVED IN TURKEY'S MIGRANT COMMUNITY
Police in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir detained 20 suspected Islamic State militants, some of Central Asian origin, on Wednesday... READ MORE›
SUICIDE BOMBER RAMS VEHICLE INTO CHINESE EMBASSY IN KYRGYZSTAN
Security guards were injured, Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Prime Minister Jenish Razakov told journalists, according to Agence France-Presse, the French news agency... READ MORE›
KYRGYZ COURT ORDERS OPPOSITION LEADER KEPT IN CUSTODY
Tekebayev, the leader of the Ata-Meken party, was arrested early Sunday after returning from Vienna... READ MORE›
SUICIDE BOMBER ATTACKS CHINESE EMBASSY IN KYRGYZ CAPITAL
Suicide bomber attacks Chinese embassy in Kyrgyz capital - Asia Times... READ MORE›
'PILOT ERROR': TURKISH CARGO PLANE CRASHES INTO HOMES IN KYRGYZSTAN
According to preliminary information, the plane crashed due to a pilot error, deputy prime minister Muhammetkaly Abulgaziev said at a briefing broadcast on state television... READ MORE›
SUICIDE BOMBER ATTACKS CHINESE EMBASSY IN KYRGYZSTAN
Post to Facebook Suicide bomber attacks Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan The interior ministry described it as a terrorist attack... READ MORE›
TURKISH PM SAYS LONG-TIME UZBEKISTAN PRESIDENT ISLAM KARIMOV HAS DIED
Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, who has run an authoritarian regime in the Central Asian nation since 1989, is gravely ill... READ MORE›
KYRGYZ PARLIAMENTS MAJORITY COALITION COLLAPSES
The Kyrgyz Parliament's majority coalition collapsed Monday after the withdrawal of the ruling Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan SDPK ... READ MORE›
NEW ARRESTS AS ERDOGAN SAYS NIGHTCLUB ATTACK BEING USED TO DIVIDE COUNTRY
The shooting occurred after a bloody year in Turkey in which hundreds of people were killed in violence blamed on both IS jihadists and Kurdish militants... READ MORE›
