Dushanbe (Tajikistan) (AFP) – Women in Tajikistan are being advised by the government to dress more "Tajik-style" and not wear either revealing Western clothes or Islamic head coverings ...

A Tajik national living in New York was arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State group (ISIS) and the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), the U ...

Image Nilufar, a 27-year-old education professional in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, has given up wearing a head scarf after the authorities stopped her three times. Image A hospital in Dushanbe ...

Tajikistan has demonstrated robust economic growth, with a significant expansion of 8.3% in 2023 and 8.2% in early 2024. This was driven by increased revenue from gold exports and public ...

Thousands of women in Tajikistan have faced similar choices in recent years as the staunchly secular government in Dushanbe has been increasingly cracking down on the Islamic head scarf at schools ...

It has emerged that the four gunmen charged in the murder of at least 139 concert-goers at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall theatre were all citizens of the small post-Soviet nation of Tajikistan in ...

Tajik militant Muhammad Sharifov (aka Mahdi Arsalon), who is wanted in Dushanbe on terrorism charges, disappeared in Afghanistan months ago, his relatives and friends said on January 8. After ...

(Berlin, August 2, 2023) – Belarus authorities have extradited Nizomiddin Nasriddinov, a Tajik political activist with refugee status in Germany, to Tajikistan, where he is at serious risk of ...

While Tajikistan’s history is being hidden behind glimmering new facades, some hold onto tradition with quiet determination. The entrance of the Navruz Palace in the capital, Dushanbe ...

BISHKEK, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Kyrgyz and Tajik border guards exchanged fire in three separate incidents in a border dispute on Wednesday, killing at least two people, officials on both sides said.

As the Taliban continues to maintain that it doesn’t allow foreign fighters in Afghanistan, a Tajik national and commander for the Al Qaeda-linked Jamaat Ansarullah remains in control of several ...

Some 1.6 million Tajik citizens have entered Russia to work so far this year, new government data from Moscow show. It’s a figure that many observers had suspected but had never before been reflected ...