Women in Kyrgyzstan will now face fines for wearing the full-body niqab, under a January ban that has now received the backing of the country's top Islamic authority. Calling the niqab "alien to our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov attends a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, ...

On October 30, the Karakol City Court in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul Region upheld an 11-year sentence meted out in February 2023 to a 66-year-old man for the crime of raping a minor. The crime had only ...

OSH, KyrgyzstanOSH, Kyrgyzstan — The U.N. has found evidence of bloody intent behind the chaos in Kyrgyzstan that killed hundreds, left the nation’s second-biggest city a smoldering ruin and sent more ...

On her first trip to Kyrgyzstan, she met Aizada Sopuev, a 22-year-old university graduate who served as her translator and guide. The two women got along so well that Goldman hired Sopuev. Comfortable ...

Intricate woolen carpets made in western Kyrgyzstan's Leilek district stand out as a unique regional art form in the one of the country's most remote regions, where there are few opportunities for ...

KARA-KULJA, Kyrgyzstan, Dec 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a cold, sparsely lit Soviet-era room, sitting close to the heater, Ainura Ibraimjanova taps at her computer. In this rural district in ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov attends a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, July 2, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Pool BISHKEK (Reuters) -Kyrgyzstan's ...