Kazakh soldiers patrol down a street in Almaty, on January 10, 2022...

A photograph taken on January 10, 2022 shows a general view of a burnt-out Almaty City Administration building in central Almaty, Kazakhstan, following violent protests over fuel price hike...

A serviceman patrols a street in central Almaty, Kazakhstan, on January 8, 2022, after violence that erupted following protests over fuel price hikes...

A photo shows the damaged Nur-Otan party headquarters building in Almaty on January 8, 2022, after violence that erupted following protests over hikes in fuel prices...

© Social media Film director and musician was killed by gunfire during protests as looters tried to hijack a car he was in Influential Kazakh hip-hop artist Saken Bitayev has been killed in the city of Almaty amid unrest that has engulfed the country for a week...

File photo of Kazakh security officers speaking to a gathering of people in wake of violent protests over sharp rise in fuel prices...

Troops are seen at the main square where hundreds of people have been protesting against the government, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on January 6, 2022...

Riot police officers patrol in a street as unprecedented protests over a hike in energy prices spun out of control in Almaty on January 5, 2022...

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. © Sputnik / Mikhail Klimentyev Allied military help needed to quell actions of terrorist bands amid violent civil unrest in Kazakhstan, the president insists The Kazakh president has asked the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for help amid violent unrest gripping the nation, claiming that terrorists were overrunning strategic facilities across the country...

© AP / Vladimir Tretyakov Mass unrest in Kazakhstan turns fiery as armored vehicles are seen on the streets Angered by the government lifting price caps on energy, crowds of demonstrators toppled, smashed, and set on fire police vehicles in Kazakhstan’s largest city of Almaty...