RFE/RL’s Tajik Service is a trusted source of local news, attracting audiences with compelling reporting on issues not otherwise covered by Tajikistan’s state-run media.
A Tajik government source says Syrian refugee camps currently house at least 575 Tajik women and children whose families had joined the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
Some 300 children from four villages in the Vahdat district of Tajikistan must make a treacherous journey to school, walking between three and four kilometers every day, each way. Some wade through a river, but when the waters rise, they must cross a high, rickety suspension bridge.
A court in Tajikistan's northeastern city of Khujand has sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to 7 1/2 years in prison after finding him guilty of inciting religious hatred.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Tajik authorities to investigate the "apparently targeted disruption" of the embattled independent news agency Asia-Plus's websites and to help ensure they are accessible.
A small Tajik boy who contracted polio and could hardly walk has turned into a man who impresses everyone with his strength as he gets around everywhere on his hands.
A former commander of Tajik government forces during the country's five-year civil war who is wanted in Tajikistan on charges of murder, robbery, hostage taking, and other crimes, has been detained in the United Arab Emirates.
Three inmates in Tajikistan have been sentenced to life in prison and 30 others received sentences of between 14 and 24 years for their roles in a deadly prison riot in November.
The Tajik and Chinese militaries have kicked off counterterrorism exercises in Tajikistan’s mountainous Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region.
A small aircraft has crashed in southern Tajikistan, killing the pilot and injuring a co-pilot.
A Chinese-owned factory has blighted the lives of residents in a Tajik village southeast of Dushanbe.
A popular news website in Tajikistan, Asia-Plus, has been blocked in Russia and is barely accessible in Tajikistan.
Four Tajik vloggers are facing criminal charges after secretly filming sex workers for a video report trying to help stop prostitution.
Tajik authorities have transferred dozens of Afghan convicts to their home country to serve their sentences there, officials say.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and his Kyrgyz counterpart Sooronbai Jeenbekov have met in the Tajik exclave of Vorukh as they look to ease tensions in the region.
Police in Kyrgyzstan's southern Batken region on the border with Tajikistan say three officers have been injured in clashes with local residents as officials meet to ease tensions after a deadly incident in the area between Kyrgyz and Tajik nationals.
Tajikistan's Prosecutor-General Yusuf Rahmon has rejected claims by relatives of 14 inmates whose deaths were announced last week that the men had been tortured.
Tajik authorities say they are probing the deaths of 14 inmates who allegedly died of food poisoning. Some of the dead prisoners' relatives, however, say the bodies showed signs of beatings.
Fourteen prison inmates died of food poisoning while being transferred from Tajikistan's northern Sogd region to prisons in Dushanbe, Norak, and Yovon in southern Tajikistan on July 7.
Tajikistan and China have signed 18 agreements to bolster bilateral ties. The documents were signed on June 15 in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, following talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.
Tajikistan and China have signed 18 agreements to bolster bilateral ties.
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