The Salbuurun Festival on Lake Issyk-Kul brings together Kyrgyzstan’s finest hunters, performers and craftspeople in a vivid ...

Hundreds gathered Saturday on the southern shore of Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk-Kul for the annual Salbuurun Festival. Held in ...

A Kyrgyz eagle hunter, also known as berkutchi, demonstrate the hiunting sklls of his golden eagle during the hunting ...

Issyk-Kul Lake in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan is surrounded by the snow-capped Tian Shen mountains. It is the second-largest mountain lake in the world behind Lake Titicaca in South ...

An entrance to the Manzhyly-Ata sacred springs area near the southern shore of the Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan, in November 2023. On the shores of the 10th largest lake in the world are more than 130 ...

On the shores of Lake Issyk Kul in mountainous Kyrgyzstan, a group of divers show off their haul for the day -- a boat engine, car tyres, bottles, clothes and plastic items."We would love to dive and ...

A moderate earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck the south shore of Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk Kul on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Kyrgyzstan faces controversy and opposition over plans to develop uranium reserves near Lake Issyk-Kul, with concerns ranging from environmental risks to government repression of dissent.