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 ...

Equally, Uzbekistan comprises multiple distinct ethnic groups who are all, in a legal sense, Uzbek, and yet their ethnic identity may well be more important to them.

Uzbekistan's Russians are not always familiar with the intricacies of their fight in Afghanistan -- but see how it influences religious Uzbeks.

Lying on his hospital bed in Andijan, 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 ...

(Osh) - The Kyrgyz and Uzbek governments should open their borders to allow members of the ethnic Uzbek population in southern Kyrgyzstan to seek protection in Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said ...

An ethnic Kazakh citizen of China, who has been stuck in the airport in Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent, has urged Uzbek authorities to deny a Chinese extradition request for him.

"This is a very dangerous situation, given the ethnic patchwork in this part of Kyrgyzstan, as well as in neighboring areas of Uzbekistan," she said.

Uzbekistan cooperates with the OSCE in such areas as strengthening of regional security and stability, development of civil society, expansion of international economic and humanitarian ...

Much of Osh was in ruins after rioting that appeared to be aimed at ethnic Uzbeks; the official death toll in southern Kyrgyzstan rose to more than 100.

Ethnic Uzbeks are only about 15 percent of the population of Kyrgyzstan, but they largely live in the country’s south, near Uzbekistan.

Kyrgyzstan appealed for Russian help to stop ethnic fighting that killed at least 63 and left parts of its second-largest city in flames, the worst violence since the president was toppled in April.