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A border conflict started between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on 28 April 2021. [26] The events surrounding the conflict's outbreak are disputed, but clashes reportedly began due to an old water dispute between the two countries, [27] [28] near the Vorukh enclave.
A three-day border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan began on 28 April 2021. The clashes stemmed from a long-running dispute over a water supply facility near the village of Kök-Tash. [10] Tajik media raised some concern over military drills in Batken prior to the conflict. [11]
As early as 2004, border clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan were being covered by local media, [25] with over 70 border incidents being reported from 2004 to 2015. [24] This conflict then escalated into a three-day battle in April–May 2021 , which killed 55 people and forced over 33,000–58,000 Kyrgyz civilians to evacuate from the ...
Kyrgyzstan attempted to assist in brokering an agreement between contesting Tajik forces in October 1992 but without success. [1] Askar Akayev later joined presidents Islam Karimov and Nursultan Nazarbayev in sending a joint intervention force to support Tajikistan's president Emomali Rahmon against insurgents, but the Kyrgyzstani parliament delayed the mission of its small contingent for ...
Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan's hostility toward Kyrgyzstan was short-lived, and the three nations signed an agreement in January 1994 creating an economic union. This led to the relaxation of border restrictions between the nations the following month. Kyrgyzstan also has contributed to the CIS peacekeeping forces in Tajikistan.
Eight men from Tajikistan with potential ties to ISIS out of central Asia were arrested over the weekend in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, three people familiar with the matter told NBC ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kyrgyzstan-Xinjiang border region on Tuesday with reports of several injuries and collapsed houses, Chinese state media reported. According ...
Russia entered the conflict in 2015 to shore up Assad's struggling regime. Russia's leader Vladimir Putin wanted to assert his country's power on the world stage and act as a counterweight to the ...