(2000 est. pop. 300,000). Between 2,500 and 3,000 years old, Osh is one of Central Asia's oldest settlements. Largely rebuilt during the twentieth century, it is located in southwestern Kyrgyzstan near the Uzbekistan border in the eastern...

Osh (Kyrgyz: Ош) is the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan located in the Fergana Valley in the south of the country and often referred to as the "capital of the south". It has served as the administrative center of Osh oblast since 1939. The city has...

A prominent independent journalist with close ties to the opposition to the authoritarian regime in neighboring Uzbekistan was shot to death in southern Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday, an official said.An unknown gunman fired three shots at Alisher Saipov at close range as he was leaving his...

The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry alleged Tuesday that an independent journalist killed last week in this turbulent ex-Soviet nation was linked to Islamic militants, an accusation his former employer dismissed as "ravings."The ministry said in a statement released to the media that Alisher Saipov, who was...

The parties that support Kyrgyzstan's president swept the parliamentary elections, according to final results released Thursday, excluding the opposition from power and raising the risk of political clashes.Instability here could threaten a U.S. air base, vital in the allied struggle against insurgents in Afghanistan, along...

Thousands of opposition supporters gathered in the main square in Kyrgyzstan's capital Wednesday to press the former Soviet nation's embattled president to resign.President Kurmanbek Bakiyev sought to head off the opposition protest by signing constitutional amendments curtailing his power Tuesday, but the opposition rejected his...