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A European Union delegation led by Belgium's foreign minister has met with Tajik officials in Dushanbe to discuss Tajik and Central Asian regional issues.
Tajikistan’s Supreme Court has banned an Islamist organization, Jamaat Ansarullah, ruling that it is an extremist group.
Six sets of Tajik parents have gone on trial for forcing their underage daughters into marriage.
A prominent scholar in Tajikistan is being criticized after calling for Muslim prayers in the country to be performed in the Tajik language rather than Arabic
Russia and Tajikistan are continuing talks over the future of Russian troops in Tajikistan.
Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon says NATO troops' withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014 will affect regional security.
A two-day ministerial conference ending on April 17 in Vienna has focused on border security in Central Asia after international military forces are pulled out of Afghanistan in 2014.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has called Russia his country's only strategic partner but said Moscow should "respect" Tajikistan.
A court in Dushanbe has started hearings into the high-profile murder of a local citizen in a Santa Claus costume.
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, imam of the Ismaili branch of the Shi'a Muslim faith, has said that an Ismaili center has been officially registered in Dushanbe under Tajikistan's law on religion.
The head of U.S. Central Command, General James Mattis, has met with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon in Dushanbe to discuss security cooperation.
Tajik authorities have announced plans to increase household electricity tariffs by 20 percent, starting in April, in conjunction with increased energy rationing.
Tajikistan's Defense Ministry says neighboring Uzbekistan will not send troops to participate in planned regional military exercises this summer held under the banner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Tajikistan's anticorruption agency says at least 10 former convicts who were freed under an amnesty last year have recently been arrested again for allegedly bribing their way to freedom.
Two rights groups have condemned Tajikistan's state communications service for blocking Tajik users' access to social-network website Facebook and several independent news sites.
Britain’s Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Nick Harvey, has discussed with Tajik leaders possible transit routes for the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan in 2014.
A Tajik businessman arrested in Moscow in 2010 on a warrant from Tajikistan has not been released from custody after his term of pretrial detention expired.
A court in Tajikistan’s northern Sughd Province has given jail sentences to seven members of the banned Islamist Jamoat-i Tabligh organization.
Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry says two Iranian drivers, blocked from leaving Tajikistan for nearly a year, have now left the country.
A transport helicopter has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing all four people on board.
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