The Uzbeks are a Central Asiatic people who speak a language belonging to the Chagatay branch of the Turkic language subfamily. In 1998, an estimated 18 million Uzbeks lived in the independent republic of Uzbekistan, located mainly between the Syr...

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This article is about Uzbeks as an ethnic group. For information about citizens of Uzbekistan, see Demographics of Uzbekistan. The Uzbeks (Self designation sg. O‘zbek, pl. O‘zbeklar) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. They...

AFTER THE security forces of Uzbekistan dictator Islam Karimov slaughtered unarmed civilians last week, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the United States deplored "the outbreak of violence, particularly by some members of a terrorist organization that were freed from prison." The tepid response...

There's never an Uzbek around when you need one. Well, okay, there are 25 million in Uzbekistan. But in a silly cost-control move, the paper refused to fund a trip to Tashkent or Samarkand, so I was left desperately trying to find a...

Russian authorities deported an Uzbek man wanted on charges of religious extremism despite objections from the European human rights court that he may be subjected to torture in Uzbekistan, rights advocates said Thursday.Abdugani Kamaliyev was flown Wednesday from the central city of Tyumen to the...

Mark Weil, an Uzbek theater director whose productions caused controversy in the tightly controlled former Soviet republic, was stabbed to death outside his home, a theater spokeswoman said Friday. He was 55.Weil was attacked in front of his apartment building in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, late...