Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, the authoritarian leader of the impoverished Central Asian nation since 1989, has died, according to Turkey's prime minister. Binali Yıldırım announced the death ...

By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Nearly ten years after the death of long-time ruler Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan looks like a ...

Since the 2016 death of the country’s first president, Islam Karimov, his successor, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has strived to ...

Islam Karimov Dies at 78, Ending a Long, Ruthless Rule of Uzbekistan Mr. Karimov’s nearly three-decade reign was often described as one of the most brutal to emerge after the collapse of the Soviet ...

World-renowned neurosurgeon Juha Hernesniemi was in Helsinki at about 2 p.m. on August 27 when he received an urgent phone call from Central Asia. Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov was hospitalized ...

MOSCOW – Islam Karimov crushed all opposition in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan as its only president in a quarter-century of independence from the Soviet Union. The country appeared to be ...

Uzbek President Islam Karimov, who ruled Central Asia's most populous ex-Soviet republic with an iron fist for a quarter-century, has died at the age of 78. Uzbek state television said on September 2 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Uzbekistan’s government issued an unusual statement on Sunday announcing the hospitalization of President Islam Karimov, who has ruled the former Soviet republic in Central Asia for more ...

A funeral will be held Saturday. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences in a statement on the Kremlin website Friday. “It is difficult to overestimate the contribution of Islam ...

Length of rule: 20 years. Karimov took power after winning by a rather large margin in the first post-Soviet era presidential election in Uzbekistan in 1991. Karimov has since continued the trend of ...

MOSCOW — President Islam Karimov — a strongman who has run Uzbekistan since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union a quarter-century ago — has reportedly died. Although Uzbek officials ...

Aides said Wednesday’s meeting was an effort to begin a new era of partnership with Uzbekistan, a country that is making its first fitful turns away from authoritarianism. By Julie Hirschfeld Davis ...