Kyrgyzstan’s parliament approves populist politician Sadyr Zhaparov as prime minister in an effort to bring an end to the political turmoil in the Central Asian state.

Kyrgyzstan's President Sooronbai Jeenbekov reshuffles top security officials in an effort to restore order following post-election unrest.

Kyrgyzstan’s President Sooronbai Jeenbekov declares a state of emergency in the capital, Bishkek, and orders the deployment of troops to the streets amid clashes between the supporters of rival political groups.

Russia says Moscow has been obliged by a security treaty to prevent a total breakdown of government in Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister Kubatbek Boronov has resigned his post after opposition groups seized power by storming government buildings in the country’s capital and getting the electoral commission to annul the results of a recent parliamentary election.

Thousands of people protesting the results of Kyrgyzstan’s legislative elections reportedly seize the Central Asian country’s parliamentary and presidential compound in the capital, Bishkek.

A state morgue in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek is overwhelmed with corpses as the city becomes a new coronavirus epicentre. The former Soviet Central Asian country went into lockdown in March and this was lifted two months later.

Many countries are adopting stricter measures in response to their outbreaks of the new coronavirus, while China, where the pathogen first emerged, effectively brings its epidemic under control.

Police in Kyrgyzstan break up a demonstration in support of a jailed opposition politician.

Trump's expanded travel ban targeting six new countries, four of them in Africa, triggers criticisms of the US president's xenophobic agenda.