(Osh) - The Kyrgyz government should take urgent action to protect all groups in southern Kyrgyzstan from ethnic reprisals in the wake of recent rioting, Human Rights Watch said today. Human ...

She is among tens of thousands of minority Uzbeks who have fled the deadliest violence Kyrgyzstan has seen since the two ethnic groups fought over land 20 years ago as Moscow lost its grip on the ...

The Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan erupted in riots over the weekend, as ethnic Kyrgyz mobs attacked Uzbeks in the southern city of Osh. The fighting diminished Monday, but armed Kyrgyz ...

A prominent human rights group said Monday that Kyrgyzstan's armed forces abetted and may even have actively taken part in violence by ethnic Kyrgyz mobs against the minority Uzbek community tha ...

A Tashkent-based rights group says exiled leaders from Kyrgyzstan's Uzbek community should be part of the reconciliation process in the wake of last year's clashes between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in ...

Kyrgyzstan's current political situation is still marred by the shadows of corruption, ethnic injustice, and mistrust created by 2010's violence and the Soviet policies that helped fuel it.

With scores killed and hundreds injured as Kyrgyz mobs rampaged through ethnic Uzbek villages, human rights groups urged the international community to intervene and prevent a humanitarian disaster.

RFE/RL senior correspondent Bruce Pannier discusses the history, demographic makeup, and recent events that have fused into the ethnic violence being witnesses in southern Kyrgyzstan. More than ...

Kyrgyzstan is the only Central Asian country in which Russian remains an official language. At present, Russian is designated as the "language of interethnic communication" between the country's 4.9 ...

Members of minority ethnic groups in Kyrgyzstan, who are often marginalized politically and economically, differ from members of the ethnic majority in their assessment of interethnic relations ...

We received a question on the NewsHour’s Facebook page about the ethnic groups engaged in the fighting: “What is the difference between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks? Do they look different?

Kyrgyz troops patrolled the burned-out streets of the southern city of Osh on Wednesday to maintain a fragile peace between ethnic groups after days of fighting that forced tens of thousands to ...