Kyrgyzstan soldiers say they have returned fire after Tajikistan attacked their outposts, raising fears of a broader conflict even as leaders of both Asian neighbours are meeting in Uzbekistan
Almost half of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan's 970-km border is disputed and progress on delimitation in recent years has been glacial.
Kyrgyz border guards were returning fire as clashes took place along the whole length of the border, it said on Friday. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and Tajik President Emomali Rakhmo appeared together with a number of other leaders, in a group photo at dinner on Thursday.but the countries, both of which host Russian military bases, appeared to have ceased hostilities afterward.
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