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At least five people have been killed in snow avalanches in Tajikistan this week, officials said.

In a country with an abundance of snow, a lone ski resort 70km north of Dushanbe trains local young people with hopes of becoming downhill champions.

The army was sent in after protests broke out in September about neglect and intimidation by the predominantly Sunni Muslim government.

Tajikistan's once thriving Jewish population has dwindled to an estimated 50 people. Most left for Israel in the 1990s to escape the country's civil war. But one ...

Unemployment, alcoholism and violence against women are common problems for men.

RAWALPINDI: Tajik Ambassador Sherali S. Jononov on Friday offered electricity to Pakistan and also expressed desire to increase the trade volume between ...

Tajikistan's GDP per capita over the last year increased by 725 somoni, Trend reports via Tajik media.

Tajikistan's authorities are still stonewalling over the prison riot in November in which dozens are believed to have died. But they are using the media to double ...

Tajik Air, the national air carrier of Tajikistan has ceased operations after failing to cope with financial difficulties.

By Abdul Kerimkhanov. Tajikistan's main export partners are Kazakhstan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, Tajik media reports. In the export of goods, ...

Facebook removed more than 250 pages on Thursday for “coordinated inauthentic behavior" masquerading as special interest groups when they were actually ...

Tajikistan is going to increase gross domestic product (GDP) by 2.6 times by 2030, Tajik media reports.

Tajikistan is a dry and mountainous country where agroforestry is helping to stabilize soils degraded by decades of monoculture farming during the Soviet era, ...

Dushanbe, 25 December 2018 – UNDP holds technical meeting today to bring officials from the Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense under the ...

Macedonian authorities are seeking cross-border help to gather evidence on a 1.7-million euro theft from local bank safe deposit boxes by an international gang ...

Nearly five months after being released from custody, Tajik journalist Khayrullo Mirsaidov has been ordered back to jail. On January 11, the Khujand City Court ...

As the world marked the 70th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, Tajikistan's government attracted unwanted ...

Family members of the four slain men linked to a terrorist attack on foreign cyclists in Tajikistan say they face pressure from the government and society.

Tajikistan, one of Central Asia's poorest states, rarely breaks into the international new cycle. This summer, as a car attack claimed by the Islamic State killed four ...

Four foreign cyclists were killed and three injured in an attack in Tajikistan that was claimed by Islamic State extremists. Here's a look at those killed and the ...

On July 29, five terrorists in Tajikistan rammed a car into a group of seven Western cyclists, then set upon them with knives. Four of the cyclists were killed: two ...

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon inaugurated a new $3.9 billion mega-dam on November 16. He hopes it will solve the Central Asian country's energy needs ...

Tajikistan's president has warned local officials in the eastern Gorno-Badakhshan region to bring order to the area, but that might be a tall order.

We meet Tajik musicians holding on to their musical roots as they try to keep their centuries-old tradition alive.

The Central Asian republic depends on remittances from migrants for almost half of its GDP. Mountains cover 90 percent of the country's territory, and Tajikistan ...

Tajikistan appears set for a military operation in its restive eastern region – and that could soon attract the attentions of Russia and China.

Authorities have identified four cyclists who were killed while riding in Tajikistan in an attack that has been claimed by the IS terror group. The victims had all kept ...

The deadly attack on a group of foreign tourists cycling through Tajikistan has left the government in Dushanbe scrambling to explain what happened on July 29 ...

With Tajiks and the international community eager to learn more about possible motives in the Islamic State-claimed attack that killed four foreigners, officials in ...

For 22 years, Rano Mahmurodova was violently abused by her husband. A groundbreaking new project changed everything.

A Tajik court this week hears the appeal of independent journalist Hairullo Mirsaidov. Verdicts are rarely overturned in Tajikistan, but Mirsaidov's case has ...

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrived in Tajikistan capital Dushanbe on Thursday to attend a two-day conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation ...

Unease in Tajikistan's Pamir region appears to have spilled over into actual violence at the weekend after a prominent local police officer allegedly fired ...

The mother of a Tajik man who is suspected of carrying out a fatal attack against a group of foreign cyclists in the Central Asian country in July poured gasoline ...

At least 25 inmates and two security officers have been killed after a riot broke out at a high-security prison in Tajikistan, three security sources said on Thursday.

The aircraft was carrying mainly Russian climbers when it crash landed in the Tajik mountains.

The road to Iskander Kul is a switchback of rough stones and corrugated holes that makes the four-wheel drive judder as I make wildly swerving progress, ...

It took more than 40 years, billions of dollars, and countless tons of concrete, but Tajikistan's Roghun hydropower plant is starting to deliver on a small part of its ...

The ADB approved a $35 million grant to reconnect Tajikistan's electricity system to the once-unified Central Asian power grid via Uzbekistan.

President Ram Nath Kovind will Sunday embark on a three-day visit to Tajikistan during which he will hold talks with the top leadership of the country to ...

While Tajikistan says it has been able to control the situation, the UN drug agency accuses it of not doing enough.

A man who swore allegiance to the Islamic State militant group before killing four foreign cyclists in ex-Soviet Tajikistan went on trial Tuesday in a process closed ...

On July 29, five terrorists in Tajikistan rammed a car into a group of seven Western cyclists, then set upon them with knives.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has asked the media to stop praising authorities so much and offer some criticism -- so that the government can avoid ...

It's likely to never be clear, but claims by the Islamic State to be behind the riot make the question critical.

For 17 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin and a poet fought each other in the streets and parks of Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe. First, Lenin ...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — An airstrike killed six Taliban insurgents along the border of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, an area where cross-border attacks ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, where he will attend a summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) ...

Tajik authorities say they have arrested five men in connection with the July 29 attack that killed four foreign cyclists, as Dushanbe widened its investigation.

Tajikistan's top diplomat says 25 people have been killed in a recent prison riot in the city of Khujand in the first public comment by Tajik authorities about the ...

An exciting global cycling adventure for a couple from Washington ended in a deadly attack claimed by Islamic militants in Tajikistan. The pair were full of joy the ...

Western diplomats have expressed concern over the “periodic blockage” of news and social-media websites in Tajikistan. In a joint statement issued on ...

What can we learn from the recent release of jailed Tajik journalist Khayrullo Mirsaidov?

With Russian support, the government in Tajikistan has kept a lid on militancy, but poverty and a growing youth population could upset that balance.

A 22-year-old English-language teacher, his four students, and five other young men have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on terrorism charges in ...

India, Russia and Tajikistan agreed in 2002 to operate Ayni on a rotational basis once construction work at the air base was completed.

The 15th International Zhautykov Olympiad was held in Almaty with over 500 students from 18 countries worldwide competing for the title of the most talented in ...

KHORUGH, Tajikistan -- At least 100 people in Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region have rallied in the provincial capital, demanding an investigation ...

Security-related incidents and reporting on alleged tax breaks for businesspeople within Tajikistan's ruling family have triggered a *fresh* wave of internet ...

While only 75 of its intended 335 meters have been built, the first turbine at Rogun has gone into operation with much fanfare.

Faizullo Safarov always dreamed of changing the world, or at least the world around him. For Safarov, who grew up in a small village in Tajikistan's southern ...

Police in the Pamir region of eastern Tajikistan say that the handover of illegally owned weapons ordered as part of an ongoing security sweep is proceeding ...

A crowd of residents in the largest town in Tajikistan's Pamir region gathered for a rare protest rally to voice their anger over security operations initiated by the ...

President Ram Nath Kovind has reached Tajikistan on a three-day visit to Central Asian Country. After arrival at state capital Dushanbe this afternoon, the ...

From the deserts of the Empty Quarter to the beaches of Belize, a panel of travel industry leaders pick the hottest destinations for the coming year.

Observer Report. Brussels. Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Zubair Mahmood Hayat on Wednesday attended the 180th Nato Military ...

The banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan says the government continues to persecute its former members and their relatives despite the party ended ...

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Jan. 18. By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend: The State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of Turkmenistan signed an agreement with the ...

It is a deeply confusing time for anybody trying to understand what Tajikistan's official line on the opposition is these days. One moment, there is talk of mass ...

The signs of warming relations between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are built on the friendship between two authoritarian rulers.

Malaysia remain in with a slim chance of reaching the AFC U-19 Championship quarter-finals following a 2-2 Group D draw with Tajikistan on Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has welcomed recent decisions by Tajik authorities to allow two children of exiled dissidents to leave the country and reunite with ...

Central Asian leaders who are seeking greater regional cooperation and international investment to bolster economic growth should place human rights at the ...

May 29, 2018. End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views ...

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met Foreign Minister of Tajikistan Sirojiddin Muhriddin in Dushanbe today.

Afghan refugees in Tajikistan say that while they are grateful for the warm welcome they have received in the neighbouring country, they still struggle to find work ...

Armed clashes erupted at the Afghan-Tajikistan border on Monday, though questions remain about who exactly was involved in the skirmish and in what ...

For around a week, reports have been trickling out of Tajikistan's remote eastern Pamir region of a looming security crackdown by government forces. The first ...

The popular nickname for Tursunzoda, a town some 50 kilometers west of the capital city, is “grape capital of Tajikistan.” Even as one approaches by car, laden ...

Muslim preachers in Tajikistan have funded repairs to a statue of Lenin.

DUSHANBE, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- "I have always wanted to learn Chinese. I plan to study in China after graduation," said Qodirova Sayora, a senior university ...

WHO is collaborating with the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) and the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) to strengthen ...

Police in southern Tajikistan say that two people were killed by mortar fire on Sunday in an area near Afghanistan. It is not yet clear where the firing came from.

For the first time since coming to power in the early 1990s, Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon traveled to Uzbekistan on a state visit. The occasion was ...

The streets of Samarkand were lined with Tajik and Uzbek flags flying tall during the days ahead of Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon's visit to Uzbekistan.

The Iranian government has summoned the Tajik ambassador to Tehran to protest allegations linking Iran to an attack that killed four foreign cyclists in Tajikistan ...

On July 11, Tajik journalist and comedian Khayrullo Mirsaidov was sentenced to 12 years in prison after a court in Khujand convicted him of embezzlement, ...

What's a Tajik woman to do? She wants to step out, but is unsure if her dress is too long -- or too short. She wants to wear a head scarf, but what type? And it's ...

Chinese investments are laying the groundwork for global economic development, but perilous obstacles remain. Of the fifteen independent states formed after ...

The murder of four foreign cyclists in Tajikistan this week has already had a palpable dampening effect on the country's tourism industry – a cruel blow in a year ...

Tajik authorities should immediately lift a politically motivated travel ban and allow a critically ill child to receive lifesaving medical treatment abroad, Human ...

23 July 2018. Federica Mogherini. High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. European Commission. Berlaymont 1049.

Tajikistan is a dry and mountainous country where agroforestry is increasingly stabilizing soils degraded by decades of overgrazing, while growing food and ...

For the second time this month, Tajikistan's government has allowed a child of exiled dissidents to leave the country and reunite with their family living abroad.

For the last two weeks, around 50 trucks traveling to or from Tajikistan have lain stranded on the northern and southern borders of Turkmenistan in a standoff that ...

Counternarcotics assistance to Tajikistan is one area in which the U.S. might rightfully rethink its approach.

Despite having lost to Malaysia 6-2 in their opening match, Tajikistan have now reached the AFC U-16 Championship semis and the U-17 World Cup.

A recent UN report finds that Tajikistan has the highest rate of malnutrition in the former Soviet states. One in four Tajik children suffers from stunted growth ...

We remember two cyclists, Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austin, killed in Tajikistan Sunday.

The west cannot preach democracy and free media in Tajikistan while leaving the locals who implement these principles to fend for themselves. RU. Khayrullo ...