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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — 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 ...

The death of Islam Karimov, the 78-year old party boss and dictatorial president of Soviet and post-Soviet Uzbekistan, a key strategic power in Central Asia, was announced September 2 in official ...

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan — Every five to 10 minutes, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week, a fresh group of Uzbek pilgrims troops into the tomb of their late president, the dictator Islam Karimov, to ...

Uzbek president Islam Karimov doesn’t take kindly to criticism. He’s branded opponents as Islamic extremists and imprisoned over 6,000 of them in a penal system where, according to the U.S. State ...

Islam Karimov, the Communist Party apparatchik who transformed post-independence Uzbekistan into a brutal personal fiefdom while reaping political and economic benefits from the U.S. war in ...

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 ...