Central Asia

BISHKEK (Reuters) -Kyrgyz and Tajik border guards exchanged fire on Thursday amid a standoff over a blocked road, in the...

ALMATY (Reuters) -Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev fired his defence minister on Wednesday, accusing him of failing to show leadership and...

NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) -Former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev appeared on Tuesday for the first time since unrest rocked the former Soviet...

ALMATY (Reuters) -The bodies of 225 people killed in unrest in Kazakhstan last week, including 19 members of the security...

NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Two members of former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev's extended family have resigned from the leadership of state...

By Tamara Vaal NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) -Russian-led forces will begin withdrawing from Kazakhstan in two days' time after stabilising the Central...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Tuesday welcomed Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's announcement that Russian-led forces had completed...

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev hinted on Tuesday that associates of his predecessor and former patron Nursultan Nazarbayev...

NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) -Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev nominated Alikhan Smailov for prime minister on Tuesday, and the lower house of parliament...

NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Monday that his country had weathered an attempted coup d'etat coordinated...

By Tamara Vaal NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory on Monday in defending Kazakhstan from what he described...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is willing to increase "law enforcement and security" cooperation with neighbouring Kazakhstan and help oppose interference...

NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday blamed Kazakhstan's violent unrest on destructive internal and external forces, and...

By Doina Chiacu and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that Washington...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it had approved the voluntary departure of non-emergency U.S. government employees...

By Olzhas Auyezov ALMATY (Reuters) - Security forces appeared to have reclaimed the streets of Kazakhstan's main city on Friday...

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - The West must pull Kazakhstan out of Moscow's orbit or Russian President Vladimir Putin...

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Friday he had given shoot-to-kill orders to deal with further disturbances...

By Olzhas Auyezov ALMATY (Reuters) -Fresh violence erupted in Kazakhstan's main city of Almaty on Thursday as Russia sent in...

LONDON (Reuters) - Kazakh protesters in London have a simple message as Russia sent in paratroopers to quell an uprising...