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 ...

By Bruce Pannier Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of some 15 million Ismaili Muslims worldwide, died in ...

At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union lowered for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow. USSR had dissolved into Russia and fourteen ...

Russian lawmaker Sergei Mironov stirred anger in Uzbekistan last October when he called for visa restrictions on millions of ...

Kyrgyz and Uzbek nationals who looked destined for lengthy jail terms after fighting for Russia in Ukraine have ended up ...

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 ...

After the Soviet collapse, during Tajikistan's Civil War in 1992, Gorno-Badakhshan declared independence from Tajikistan under the political movement La'al-e Badakhshan. However, later ...

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 ...

U.S. shipments of weapons into Ukraine were briefly paused in recent days before resuming over the weekend as the Trump ...

Trump and his envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, have said they are working on a plan to broker a deal to end the ...

While security concerns are important, the strategy is not security-centric but pays equal attention to diplomatic, political and economic engagement.

Assad’s final ouster appeared abrupt, it had its roots in Syria’s 2011 antigovernment protests, and Syrians will now face ...