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Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon agreed to order a ceasefire and troop pullback in a meeting in Uzbekistan on Friday, the Kyrgyz president’s office said, after deadly clashes between the two Russian allies. The former Soviet republics earlier accused each other of restarting fighting in …

Heavy rain in border regions between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan spurred mudslides that have left 14 dead, authorities in the Central Asian countries said on Tuesday. Landslides hit the mountainous region every year, blocking roads and often forcing families to rebuild homes from scratch. Kyrgyzstan officials said the bodies of six …

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an expanded version of his travel ban on Friday that targets prospective immigrants from Nigeria and five other countries, a move that could affect thousands of people and reignite the debate on whether the policy is discriminatory. Of the six countries added to the ban, …

Moscow has launched a large-scale military exercise alongside China and India, with maneuvers spanning from the Caspian Sea to Central Asia. The Tsentr-2019 (Center-2019) drill, which kicked off on Monday, amasses around 128,000 troops, with more than 20,000 pieces of hardware, conducting maneuvers in southern Russia and Central Asia. Russian …

Three Tajik soldiers and one Kyrgyz serviceman were killed and more than a dozen on both sides wounded in an overnight border clash, the authorities in Bishkek and Dushanbe said on Tuesday, blaming each other for the incident. The Kyrgyz and Tajik security services both said in statements that the …

Special forces have arrested Kyrgyzstan’s former president Almazbek Atambayev at his mansion, in an operation in which gunfire could be heard. He was previously stripped of immunity over corruption accusations. Armed troops in body armor stormed the residence in the village of Koi-Tash late on Wednesday. Atambayev’s supporters started tossing …

An Iraqi court has sentenced an Azerbaijani woman to 15 years in prison for her affiliation to the Daesh terrorist group. The Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq, in a statement released on Thursday, announced that the Central Criminal Court had issued the verdict against the woman, whose identity was not …

The Central Criminal Court in the Federal Baghdad/ Rusafa resumption presidency sentenced two terrorists from Kyrgyzstan for fifteen years for the crime of belonging to ISIS. “The two terrorists admitted during the interrogation that they had come to Syria through Turkey to join ISIS terrorist gangs with their husbands,” a …