Neither Western monitors, nor media, were allowed to observe a poll characterized by the lack of genuine opposition in a ...

The exercise is unlikely to be a democratic process; rather, it will probably cement the eradication of political opposition ...

As expected, the party of Emomali Rakhmon, who has been at the helm of the country since 1994, obtained an absolute majority ...

Tajikistan is a landlocked country of some 10 million people sandwiched between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. The majority of Tajiks are adherents of the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam.

Just weeks after a four-day border war in 2022, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and Tajik leader Emomali Rahmon couldn't shake hands. Now, as they prepare to put a border dispute behind them, they are ...

U.S. authorities have arrested a Tajik national accused of funneling tens of thousands of dollars to Islamic State fighters and families in Turkey and Syria. His case comes amid longstanding -- and ...

A source in the Tajik security services told Reuters the convicted people were all tied to Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), the Afghan offshoot of Islamic State. A shirt bearing ISIS insignia ...

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - A court in Tajikistan has handed down prison sentences of between eight and 20 years to more than 30 people it convicted of trying to poison attendees of a festival last year ...