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

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

Three of the men, including the two Tajiks, were serving prison terms on drug-trafficking charges. The fourth man was convicted of manslaughter. Davlatov, who lives in a modest one-story house in ...

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

After Tajiks were charged with a deadly attack in Moscow, the country has cracked down on signs of Islam. But experts say it’s not addressing the causes of terrorism. After Tajiks were charged ...

Tajikistan faces a worsening energy crisis, with winter rationing starting a month earlier than usual due to water shortages ...

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 ...

In June, eight Tajiks affiliated with ISIS were detained in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York City. In August, the FBI indicted a Pakistani man attempting to assassinate the former president ...

"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 ...

In the deep valleys between we could see a hodgepodge of small villages where Tajiks and Uzbeks have lived for centuries, herding goats and harvesting watermelons, plums, apples, and walnuts and ...