In a new clampdown on independent media, Tajikistan has jailed a veteran journalist for criticizing regional officials, while ...

Since the fall of the Soviet Union and a civil war in the early 1990s, Tajikistan has been plunged into poverty. According to Mehrigiul Ablezova, a professor of sociology at the American University of ...

During that span he has assiduously consolidated power in his own hands, sidelining political rivals and invalidating a power-sharing arrangement that ended Tajikistan’s 1992-97 civil war.

Dushanbe accused Tehran of supporting Islamist factions during the Tajik civil war in the 1990s, and of being close to Islamist political parties that are banned in Tajikistan – a secular Muslim ...

UNHCR established offices in Central Asia in response to the 1992-93 civil war in Tajikistan and the war in northern Afghanistan that had displaced thousands of people. As these displacement ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Tajikistan to strengthen relations strained since the 1990s civil war. Pezeshkian highlighted the linguistic and cultural ties, expressing a sense of ...