The death toll from the flare-up in violence along the Kyrgyz-Tajik border has risen to near 100 as a tense cease-fire and joint patrols of the two Central Asian nations’ forces were put in place amid scattered gunfire and shelling. Kyrgyz authorities on September 18 said 59 of its citizens had been killed after days … Read more
On September 14, at 7:15, military units of the Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic, without any reason, began shelling the Kekh border post of the Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security of the Republic of Tajikistan in the Vorukh rural community of Isfara. During … Read more
Kyrgyzstan said on Sunday its death toll from the border conflict with Tajikistan has risen to 36 people, with at least 129 wounded in fighting between the two Central Asian nations. The former Soviet republics clashed over a border dispute on Sept. 14-16, accusing each other of using tanks, mortars, rocket artillery and assault drones … Read more