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, the prosecutor general's ...

The perpetrator of the attack, a 24-year-old student, was jailed for 26 years after being found guilty of terrorism and attempted murder, Rustam Mirzozoda, chairman of Tajikistan's Supreme Court, told ...

In a block of flats in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe ... which is seeking to curb both radical Islam and ancestral beliefs. "Illegal religious teaching leads to scams, divination and witchcraft.

As Central Asian governments tighten restrictions on the hijab in the name of upholding secularism, devout Muslim women find themselves forced to navigate an increasingly difficult choice between ...

The Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of the world’s Shi’ite Ismaili Muslims, has died at the age of 88. The wealthy imam, ...

You might not expect a country with a 95% Muslim population to ban the hijab but that's exactly what happened in Tajikistan last week. The central Asian nation's parliament has approved a bill to ...

Hussaini, the new spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, was named as the successor to his father, who died at 88.

and of being close to Islamist political parties that are banned in Tajikistan – a secular Muslim country which fears the spread of radical Islam. Iran’s former president, Ebrahim Raisi ...

In a block of flats in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe ... which is seeking to curb both radical Islam and ancestral beliefs. "Illegal religious teaching leads to scams, divination and witchcraft.