PEOPLE in Tajikistan had been expecting a government crackdown after Tajik men were arrested and charged with a extre­mist ...

After Tajiks were charged with a deadly attack in Moscow, the country has cracked down on signs of Islam. But experts say ...

Tajik police have described the recent stabbing attack on the country’s state-backed Islamic leader an act of “hooliganism.” ...

Dari, the form of Persian spoken in Afghanistan, is almost identical to Tajik and more than a quarter of Afghanistan's 40 ...

RFE/RL photo correspondent Petr Trotsenko meets the Tajiks who depend on the Syr Darya River, a waterway that was once bled ...

In the Ferghana Valley of Central Asia, neighbouring Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are at loggerheads over crucial water resources. This territorial dispute is exacerbated by climate change and the ...

New bills speeding up the deportation process and insisting on military registration for new citizens are predicted to spark a “migration crisis” that will largely impact Central Asia.

"Many people already don't like non-Russians, and now we have this situation," one person wrote on a group entitled "Tajiks in Moscow". Worried about the risk of a backlash on the Tajik community ...

The broader effects of the script change on other minorities, including Uzbeks, Tatars, Uyghurs, and Tajiks have been studied ...

"A danger exists that [the entire region] will destabilize." Ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks from extremist and terrorist groups based in northern Afghanistan were already "making plans to infiltrate the ...

Five years after ISIS was declared to have been defeated in 2019, it is back and, according to one leading researcher, more ...