Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov has passed on. But his legacy of repression, torture, massacres and slavery will impact millions of people for decades. This statement was originally published on hrw.org on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The cabinet stated that his funeral will take place on Saturday, and no official successor was confirmed. Karimov has been Uzbekistan's sole leader since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, ...

Reporting from Moscow — Russian news agencies are citing the government of Uzbekistan as saying that President Islam Karimov has died, ending days of rumors about the condition of the 78-year-old hard ...

At first blush, the vehicles changing hands could appear to be excess materiel from the war in Afghanistan, set for repurposing in a neighboring nation rather than shipped to U.S. police departments.

In a country whose government kept silent for four full days after revealing that its only post-Soviet leader was in the hospital with an undisclosed ailment, it's tough to read the tea leaves about ...

The death of Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov could pose serious challenges for the US in areas such as counterterrorism and could become another flash point in the contentious US-Russia ...

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 ...

MOSCOW – Uzbekistan's government has issued an unusual statement announcing the hospitalization of President Islam Karimov, who has ruled the former Soviet republic in Central Asia for more than 25 ...

This essay is part of a series by American diplomats sharing their impressions of the dramatic early years of Central Asia's independence from the Soviet Union. These memoirs were written at the ...

MOSCOW — The authoritarian leader of Uzbekistan has suffered a stroke, his family said, stoking fears of a power vacuum and possible influx of radical Islamists in the impoverished Central Asian ...