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The significance of Kyrgyzstan to the US increased after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Kyrgyzstan offered to host US forces at an airbase at the Manas international airport outside of the capital, Bishkek, and it opened in December 2001. After an April 2010 coup in Kyrgyzstan and ethnic violence in June 2010 in the south of the country, the United States committed about $90 million in urgent humanitarian and other assistance in addition to appropriated foreign assistance.