The Latest Breaking News from Tajikistan

Syria’s autonomous Kurdish administration handed Tajikistan 146 women and children who were held in the al-Hol and Roj camps in northeast Syria. The operation was the largest of its kind since March 2009. It included 104 children and 42 women who arrived in Syria in early 2015.

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, received on Sunday a written message from Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The message dealt with the strong and solid bilateral relations that bind the two countries and peoples, and ways to support…

The United States may let Tajikistan hold on to Afghan military aircraft donated by the U.S. that sought shelter in the Central Asian country following the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul last August, a U.S. military commander said.

Iran and Tajikistan are strengthening ties as they look warily at Afghanistan.

Egypt expressed its backing for the adoption of a plan to develop and apply a regional early warning systems over water and climate. The step aims at increasing the readiness of all regional countries to address “extreme phenomena,” such as torrential rains and droughts, and protect citizens from the impact…

Tajikistan on Saturday accused neighboring Kyrgyzstan of provoking a border clash, the latest in a series of armed confrontations between the two small impoverished Central Asian nations.

The war in Ukraine is dividing the former Soviet region, making it poorer and less secure. Russia will take advantage of this.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held talks in Tehran on Monday with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon. Discussions focused on the situation in neighboring Afghanistan. Raisi said both countries want stability and security in Afghanistan and throughout the region and consider the presence of terrorists in this country very worrying. The two…

Many Afghan soldiers reportedly escaped to Pakistan as the Taliban attacks on districts and provincial capitals intensified weeks before the Afghan government’s collapse in August 2021, a US report revealed. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released an interim report, “Collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security…

Escalating tensions erupt into regime-backed violence against the minority group in the autonomous region of Gorno-Badakhshan

Tajikistan has launched an "anti-terror operation" in its restive Gorno-Badakhshan province, which borders Afghanistan and China, Russia's RIA news agency cited the Tajik interior ministry as saying on Wednesday.