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The European Union on Tuesday dropped the last remaining sanctions against Uzbekistan imposed after a 2005 crackdown on an uprising.
Uzbekistan has sharply criticized Russia's plan to boost its military presence in neighboring Kyrgyzstan, signaling a growing rift within a Moscow-dominated security alliance of ex-Soviet nations.
The United States has signed a new deal with the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan to bring nonmilitary supplies to U.S. fighting forces in Afghanistan.
Josh Kennedy and Harry Kewell scored second-half goals to put Australia on the cusp of securing a World Cup spot with a 2-0 win over Uzbekistan on Wednesday.
Uzbekistan has reached an agreement with NATO allowing the alliance to send non-military supplies through the Central Asian nation en route to Afghanistan, news agencies quoted the Uzbek president as saying Wednesday.
A fire at a Soviet-era military base in Uzbekistan spread to an ammunitions depot Thursday, igniting a series of powerful explosions that the Uzbek government said killed three people and injured 21 others.
Three years after gunning down unarmed protesters in the city of Andijan, Uzbek authorities are still persecuting people they believe are linked to the unrest, an international rights group says in a report released Monday.
A NATO official said Wednesday that Uzbekistan has allowed some members of the alliance, including the United States, to use an air base on its territory in a signal of thawing relations with the West.
Authorities in Uzbekistan have granted amnesties to two prominent rights activists in what could be part of government efforts to mend frosty ties with the West.
The commander of U.S. forces in Central Asia met with Uzbek President Islam Karimov on Thursday, the first visit by a high-level U.S. military officer since the authoritarian leader evicted American troops amid Western criticism of a bloody government crackdown.
Uzbekistan's authoritarian leader was sworn in for a third presidential term Wednesday, news reports said, despite a constitutional two-term limit.
Uzbekistan's authoritarian President Islam Karimov, who has ruled the Central Asian nation for nearly two decades, has won another seven-year term with 88.1 percent of the votes, according to early returns released by Central Election Commission on Monday — an election critics dismissed as a sham.
Uzbeks were casting ballots Sunday in a tightly controlled presidential vote that is widely expected to extend the rule of one of the most autocratic and anti-Western leaders in strategic Central Asia.
Uzbek secret service agents have seized a prominent poet and dissident who had protested authoritarian leader Islam Karimov's participation in this weekend's presidential vote, one of the writer's sons said Friday.
President Islam Karimov, the former communist boss who has ruled this former Soviet nation since independence, seems certain of winning re-election Sunday in a ballot his foes say will be little more than political theater.
Russian authorities deported an Uzbek man wanted on charges of religious extremism despite objections from the European human rights court that he may be subjected to torture in Uzbekistan, rights advocates said Thursday.
A prominent Uzbek human rights activist has been sentenced to six years and three months in jail as part of a crackdown on dissidents and government critics in the former Soviet republic, a colleague said Monday.
Two Uzbek men convicted of Islamic extremism have died in prison and their bodies showed signs of severe torture, relatives and a rights activist said Thursday.
Uzbekistan's president has registered as a candidate in next month's election, the electoral commission said Monday, even though the constitution bars him from seeking a third consecutive term.
Authorities in Uzbekistan have arrested a prominent human rights advocate, a fellow activist said Wednesday, amid an ongoing crackdown on dissidents and government critics in the tightly controlled former Soviet state.
Uzbekistan on Monday blocked a U.N. resolution backed by the United States and Western nations criticizing its human rights violations, including the harassment, beatings and arrests of journalists and civil activists.
Claim: CIA Sent Prisoners Abroad to Be Boiled Alive and 'Raped with Broken Bottles'"I'm talking of people being raped with broken bottles," he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. "I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession.
Our Man in KabulWith the cancellation of Afghanistan's runoff election, Washington is left with Hamid Karzai as its partner in Kabul. How did Karzai come to power in the first place, and what might that say about his ability to rule?
Europe stoops to conquer the uzbeksThe worsening Afghan war has brought some good news for Uzbekistan. On Tuesday, the European Union announced it was lifting a four-year old arms embargo against Uzbekistan.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan army targets Uzbek basePakistani troops fighting the Taliban in South Waziristan have surrounded a key stronghold of Uzbek fighters, military officials say. They say that the town of Kaniguram - one of the largest towns in the area - is also the "operational centre" of the Pakistani Taliban.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan's 'fanatical' Uzbek militantsIn South Waziristan, the Pakistani army is bracing itself for confrontation with what it says are "a large group of Uzbek extremists". So who are they and what are they doing in Pakistan? Sirojiddin Tolibov of the BBC's Uzbek service has this assessment.
Consortiumnews.comOne of the most remarkable cases is that of Craig Murray, a 20-year veteran of the British Foreign Service whose career was destroyed after he was posted to Uzbekistan in August 2002 and began to complain about Western complicity in torture committed by the country's totalitari …
Northern Afghan Violence Undercuts US Supply RouteGrowing Taliban influence in northern Afghanistan is threatening a new military supply line painstakingly negotiated by the U.S., as rising violence takes hold on the one-time Silk Road route.
Pakistan discovers 'village' of white German al-Qaeda insurgents "The village, in Taliban-controlled Waziristan, is run by the notorious al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which plots raids on Nato forces in Afghanistan.
Urgent Message from the Shabab of Hizb ut-Tahrir in UzbekistanThe systematic torture meted out by the corrupt Karimov regime against the Shabab of the Hizb ut-Tahrir in Uzbekistan has intensified greatly in recent times...
US steps up its Central Asian tangoWith the signing of military agreement between the United States and Uzbekistan at Tashkent last Thursday by the US Central Command chief General David Petraeus and Uzbek Defense Minister Kabul Berdiyev, Uzbekistan's geopolitical positioning has phenomenally shifted.
Russia parries US thrust in Central AsiaThe Uzbeks explain the ingenuity of their mind by often repeating a saying that goes: when they speak, they seldom mean what they say; and when they act, they almost always disregard what they have in mind.
US does not object to Russian base in KyrgyzstanBISHKEK - The United States has no objections to Russia opening a second military base in Kyrgyzstan, a senior US diplomat said Sunday during a visit to the Central Asian nation...
The Irresistible IllusionWe are accustomed to seeing Afghans through bars, or smeared windows, or the sight of a rifle: turbaned men carrying rockets, praying in unison, or lying in pools of blood; boys squabbling in an empty swimming-pool; women in burn wards, or begging in burqas.
Taliban threat spooks Central AsiaAs Pakistan continues large-scale military operations against Taliban militants in the country's northwest and the United States ratchets up its troop presence in Afghanistan, a recent comment by Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev captured in a nutshell the speculation these effor …
by Rupali Gaurav: One of the most frequently asked questions is-how are the Taliban in Afghanistan and the insurgents in Pakistan getting weapons, ammunition, vehicles, explosives and communication equipment? And how is it that this deadly pipeline has neither been blocked nor re …
Beyond 'Af-Pak'The United States cannot win in Afghanistan while ignoring Central Asia. On May 26, unknown assailants attacked a border post in Uzbekistan's volatile Fergana Valley. Less than 24 hours later, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the nearby city of Andijan, killing a policeman.
Terrorism: Islamist Jihadis threaten terror attacks in Germany "The Al-Qaeda linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan on Wednesday released a video threatening the "criminal" German government and citizens of the Jewish faith, according to German media.
N.A.T.O., S.C.O. or P.A.T.O.? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization's Special Conference on Afghanistan, held in Moscow on 27 March, marks a new stage in the international community's relations with this beleaguered country.
(The following article first appeared as the sole subject of an AFI Media Briefing by AFI Research)
Intrigue lurks below surface of relations among alliesFrom Kuala Lampur comes this astute abstract of the mess in South Asia. It mentions that geographers think they have located Bin Laden. (I seeded that see below) and that Special Forces are training Pakistani forces.
US military pieces together Afghan supply chain. Agence France-Presse | Feb 9, 2009 Washington: Threatened with the loss of a key air base, the US military is making plans to move materiel and fuel to US forces in Afghanistan through a network of commercial links through Russia and Central Asia, a military spokesman said Friday.
TheStar.com | Global Voices | Your shirt off their backsWhen cotton makes up 60 per cent of his country's export earnings, everyone is expected to pitch in. Through school closures and campaigns encouraging loyalty to the president and the country, the government sends children to the fields.
Russia plays tricky game with U.S. over Kyrgyzstan base. By Shamil Baigin, Writing by Oleg Shchedrov, Editing by Richard Balmforth. Wed Feb 4, 2009 2:06pm GMTMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has embarked on a risky political game with new U.S. President Barack Obama by forcing its ally Kyrgyzstan to close a U.S. military base while keeping up overtures to establish warmer relations with Washington.
With attacks on Afghan supply lines in Pakistan, US turns to UzbekistanDespite human rights abuses in Uzbekistan, the United States is "rebuilding ties" to provide "a new military supply route into Afghanistan."
Iran in scramble for fresh uranium supplies. The London Times by Robin Pagnamenta, Michael Evans and Tony Halpin in Moscow. January 24, 2009Western powers believe that Iran is running short of the raw material required to manufacture nuclear weapons, triggering an international race to prevent it from importing more, The Times has learnt.
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