Accompanied by their livestock, hundreds tried to flee the Wakhan Corridor, a mountainous region of Afghanistan now threatened by the Taliban. But they were turned back by northern neighbors.
Tag: Kyrgyz (Ethnic Group)
Over 40 Dead in Tajik-Kyrgyz Border Clash as Death Toll Rises
Fighting that broke out over water rights also injured more than 200 people, government officials said.
Central Asian Border Dispute Casts Shadow Over U.S. Afghan Departure
Fighting between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan raised the specter of instability in the region as the United States prepares to leave Afghanistan.
Kyrgyzstan Azimzhan Askarov
The human rights advocate, who was serving a life sentence on charges related to 2010 ethnic violence widely criticized as trumped-up, died in a prison clinic.
Kyrgyzstan Dispatch: A Mennonite Town in Muslim Central Asia Holds On Against the Odds
A community of Mennonites in Kyrgyzstan is one of Christendom’s most remote and oddest outposts in the Muslim world, as ethnic Germans cling to their faith even as emigration shrinks their numbers.