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The head of the investigative department in Kyrgyzstan's Interior Ministry has said that 22 citizens of Kyrgyzstan have been killed in fighting in Syria.
Libyan officials say three Tajik citizens were among seven victims killed during a terrorist attack on a luxury hotel used by diplomats and businessmen in Tripoli.
A new criminal case against a jailed Tajik opposition businessman has been sent to a court in Dushanbe.
A Tajik border guard was wounded in an exchange of fire with an armed group trying to cross from Afghanistan on January 18
Tajikistan has formally asked Turkey to extradite fugitive opposition politician and businessman Umarali Quvatov.
A lawyer and opposition politician has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted of taking a bribe.
Officials in Tajikistan have made public the identities of four Tajik border guards who were reported abducted by an unidentified group based in Afghanistan last month.
Tajik authorities say a man from the Central Asian nation has been killed while fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
The suspected leader of a cell of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and 10 alleged subordinates have been detained in Tajikistan.
Tajikistan's government has expressed concern over young Tajiks receiving education at Islamic religious schools abroad.
YouTube and a popular Russian social network, Odnoklassniki, were inaccessible through many Internet service providers in Tajikistan on December 30.
A Paris-based rights group has urged Turkey to respect the human rights of Tajik opposition politician Umarali Quvatov and three of his associates who were detained in Istanbul last week.
A court in Tajikistan has sentenced four men to prison after convicting them of being adherents of a banned branch of Islam.
The chairman of the Tajik capital's economic court has been arrested for alleged bribe-taking.
The deputy chairman of Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security, Akram Amonov, says some 300 Tajik nationals are fighting alongside militants in Syria including the Islamic state group.
Nongovernmental organizations in Tajikistan are concerned over new legislation that restricts their access to foreign grants.
Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry has asked Yemeni authorities to secure the release of a female Tajik doctor kidnapped last month in Yemen's Marib province.
Authorities in Tajikistan have arrested 12 men suspected of recruiting residents of the northern province of Sughd to fight alongside Islamic militants in Syria.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon says freedom of speech exists in his country because there are "hundreds" of private media outlets in Tajikistan.
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