A building in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Ethnic Tajiks are traditionally concentrated in the cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, but are present in all regions of Uzbekistan. Credit: Steve Swerdlow More ...

in eastern Uzbekistan, 65-year-old Khikmatullo Urunbayev, an ethnic Uzbek grandfather from Osh, in southern Kyrgyzstan, had tears in his eyes as he lifted his arm for us to see. A bullet fired by ...

What drew the interest of security agents was that all the detainees were members of Uzbekistan’s tiny community of ethnic Iranian Shia Muslims. The homes of the men were searched, seemingly in a hunt ...

JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan -- Thousands of ethnic Uzbeks have begun returning to Kyrgyzstan's southern Osh and Jalal-Abad regions from refugee camps in neighboring Uzbekistan, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service ...

It was noted at the event that in this country large-scale work was being carried out to further strengthen the atmosphere of inter-ethnic accord and religious tolerance. The Constitution of the ...

which Stalin divided among Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The valley remains an ethnic patchwork, and minority enclaves, like that of the Uzbeks in Osh, have been scenes for violence.

OSCE project coordinator in Uzbekistan Gyorgy Szabo also attended the meeting. During the meeting the parties stressed that inter-ethnic and inter-religious harmony is the foundation for building ...

ALMATY, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Human rights activists are urging Uzbekistan to deny a Chinese extradition request for an ethnic Kazakh citizen of China who is now stuck in the Central Asian nation's ...

ETHNIC TENSIONS: -- Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous, landlocked former Soviet republic bordering China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. -- A conflict between Uzbeks and minority Meskhetian ...

Many of those in the camps are traumatised by their ordeal The BBC's Rayhan Demytrie reports from a refugee camp inside Uzbekistan, where ethnic Uzbeks are giving their accounts of how they fled ...

As the death toll reaches 65 in Uzbek-Kyrgyz clashes and Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyzstan's interim president has called on Russia for assistance,according to unconfirmed reports, several thousand ethnic ...