April

On 28 April, forces of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border between Kök-Tash and Khojai A'lo, started the clashes, resulting in four deaths and dozens of injuries.^[12][13] The initial clashes were fought with fists and thrown stones, but quickly escalated to gunfire, with reports of heavy weaponry.^[14] The following day clashes resumed, with reported incidents in the Kyrgyz village of Kok-Terek and some other villages in the Batken and Leylek Districts,^[15] and with at least 41 people killed from both sides and roughly 10,000 people evacuated.^[16][17] The same day the foreign ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan agreed to a ceasefire at the border.^[18] On 30 April, Tajikistan acknowledged the ceasefire in a statement published by its state information service.^[19] The ceasefire was broken twice by Tajiks during the conflict, however, including the night of 29 April.^[20]

May

On 1 May, the President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov signed a decree that declares a two-day nationwide mourning,^[21] accusing Tajikistan of building-up troops and military equipment on the border. The Kyrgyz side also accused Tajik forces of opening fire on Kyrgyz vehicles in the area, while a Tajik spokesman speaking from Dushanbe said that the country was sticking to the ceasefire and pull-out of troops.^[22] Musurmanbek Tursumatov, representative of the regional administrator of the Batken Region, said that Tajik forces had blocked the Osh-Batken-Isfana road to Vorukh despite the ceasefire coming into effect.^[23] That same day both countries also agreed to a new ceasefire^[24] following minor new border clashes, which includes withdrawing troops from the border. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged both countries to honor the new agreement.^[25][26]

On 2 May, around 33,388 civilians in Kyrgyzstan were evacuated from the Batken Region near the border.^[27] The Kyrgyz Ministry of the Interior and Tajikistan report that the situation at the border is stable and calm. Nonetheless, an unexploded air-to-land rocket was later discovered at a house near the border in Batken.^[28]

On 3 May, both countries completed the withdrawal of troops from the border.^[29] The President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon also ordered that all residential buildings destroyed in Chorku be restored.^[30] On 6 May, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that 136 houses and 84 facilities in the Batken region have been destroyed.^[31] On 10 May, citizens in the Batken region returned home for the first time since evacuating the region.^[32] On 18 May, officials in both countries announced that they had agreed to joint security controls along disputed border.^[33]

July

On 9 July, despite the ceasefire, a clash between Tajik and Kyrgyz border guards killed one Kyrgyz serviceman.^[34] According to the Kyrgyz side, their patrol unit on horseback was fired upon by the Tajiks in Leylek.^[35]