The Latest Breaking News from Tajikistan

The Vostok drills are due to start at the end of the month and will also include India, Belarus, Mongolia and Tajikistan

Chinese troops will travel to Russia to take part in a joint exercise with Russia and other countries including India, Belarus and Tajikistan, the Chinese defense ministry said on Wednesday. China's participation in the joint exercises is "unrelated to the current international and regional situation," the ministry said in a…

The United States may let Tajikistan hold on to Afghan military aircraft donated by the U.S. that sought shelter in the Central Asian country following the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul last August, a U.S. military commander said.

Iran and Tajikistan are strengthening ties as they look warily at Afghanistan.

Egypt expressed its backing for the adoption of a plan to develop and apply a regional early warning systems over water and climate. The step aims at increasing the readiness of all regional countries to address “extreme phenomena,” such as torrential rains and droughts, and protect citizens from the impact…

Tajikistan on Saturday accused neighboring Kyrgyzstan of provoking a border clash, the latest in a series of armed confrontations between the two small impoverished Central Asian nations.

The war in Ukraine is dividing the former Soviet region, making it poorer and less secure. Russia will take advantage of this.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held talks in Tehran on Monday with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon. Discussions focused on the situation in neighboring Afghanistan. Raisi said both countries want stability and security in Afghanistan and throughout the region and consider the presence of terrorists in this country very worrying. The two…

Many Afghan soldiers reportedly escaped to Pakistan as the Taliban attacks on districts and provincial capitals intensified weeks before the Afghan government’s collapse in August 2021, a US report revealed. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released an interim report, “Collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security…