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A bomb has exploded near the Tokhtaboy Mosque in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where a controversial imam was once the chief cleric.
A Swedish prosecutor says there is abundant evidence suggesting that Uzbek authorities were behind a February 2012 assassination attempt against an outspoken emigre cleric who was critical of President Islam Karimov's government.
Uzbekistan's Education Ministry has eliminated political science from university curriculums, saying it doesn't fit the domestic developmental model.
Uzbek President Islam Karimov has ruled out the establishment of any foreign military base in his country.
An Uzbek suspect in the 2012 shooting of an outspoken emigrant cleric who was critical of the Uzbek regime has been extradited to Sweden.
Authorities in Uzbekistan have arrested nine more individuals with current or former business ties to Gulnara Karimova, further widening the pall of corruption around the disgraced eldest daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
The organizer of an outdoor concert marred by the fatal collapse of a bridge railing is under investigation, sources in Uzbekistan say.
At least 15 people have been reported killed in the western Uzbek city of Urgench after a bridge railing collapsed during a concert, sending spectators into the lake below, Uzbek officials say.
Many people are feared dead in the western Uzbek city of Urgench after a fence on a bridge collapsed during a concert.
The Russian government has agreed to send a debt agreement with Uzbekistan to the State Duma for ratification.
A former top Uzbek security official, who in his position oversaw corruption investigations into the activities of presidential daughter Gulnara Karimova, has been arrested.
The U.S. Justice Department has won permission to seize $300 million allegedly linked to a Russian-Uzbek bribery scandal involving a close relative of Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
Four Uzbeks who sought refugee status in Russia have gone missing after their release in Moscow, prompting concerns that they have been secretly repatriated despite a European court ruling barring their extradition
An Uzbek Central Bank official has complained to Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyaev that the country suffers from a shortage of traceable funds.
A number of Uzbek officials who played a role in the downfall of the president's daughter Gulnara Karimova have themselves fallen from grace.
The Kremlin says Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov has indicated that he will visit Moscow on May 9 to take part in events commemorating the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
The Uzbek official responsible for confiscating the assets of disgraced presidential daughter Gulnara Karimova has been charged with corruption and abuse of office.
Relatives of an Uzbek man who died in police custody this month say they believe he was tortured to death by police.
The Uzbek-German Forum For Human Rights (UGF) has criticized Uzbek authorities for forcing "more than 1 million" Uzbeks to pick cotton in 2014.
Uzbek activist Aman Sagidullaev, who is in self-imposed exile in Kyrgyzstan, says Uzbek authorities have arrested five of his brothers over his political activities.
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