Sources: Central Asian News
At least one person is killed and four others are injured, including two seriously, when a Mil Mi-8 military helicopter makes a hard landing during a rescue operation on Jengish Chokusu in Kyrgyzstan. 2025-08-16
Kyrgyzstan says that 94% of its border with Tajikistan has been agreed upon by officials from both countries. 2024-07-30
Kyrgyzstan arrests 15 alleged Islamic State – Khorasan Province supporters in Bishkek. 2024-06-14
Twenty-five people are arrested after a riot at a kok-boru event in Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan. 2023-09-1
The Kyrgyzstan Emergency Situations Ministry declares an emergency in the Tüp District due to flooding. 2023-08-3
Presidential elections are held in Kyrgyzstan following last year's political unrest and the resignation of President Sooronbay Jeenbekov. Interim Prime Minister Sadyr Japarov is widely expected to win the election. The question of keeping the current parliamentary system or reintroducing a presidential system is also presented to the electorate in the form of a referendum. 2021-01-10
Kyrgyzstan announces the addition of thousands of cases and hundreds of deaths to its COVID-19 tallies, describing the corresponding pneumonia-related cases, which had not been confirmed by tests, as most likely linked to the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus. Neighboring Kazakhstan announces it will do the same starting next month. 2020-07-17
Kyrgyzstan's parliament agrees to form a three-way coalition government, creating the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia. 2010-11-30
Voters in Kyrgyzstan go to the polls for a parliamentary election amid concerns about a possible renewal of tensions between ethnic groups. With 50 percent of the vote counted, the Ata-Zhurt party has received the most votes so far but no party is close to achieving a majority. 2010-10-10
Interim Kyrgyzstan leader Roza Otunbayeva visits Osh and says the death toll from her country's worst ethnic clashes in two decades could be 2,000. 2010-06-18