Unease in Tajikistan’s Pamir region appears to have spilled over into actual violence at the weekend after a prominent local police officer allegedly fired gunshots at a group of local people. Subhon ...

Imagine being a member of a little-known, persecuted minority attempting to flee your homeland, where you are at risk of being locked up or even killed, when few outsiders know or even care who you ...

Today is the one-year anniversary of the controversial military operation in Khorog, Tajikistan, and human rights groups took the occasion to present to the government a report they have prepared on ...

Mamadbokir Mamadbokirov a Tajik Shia leader in the Badakhshan region was martyred Sunday during a special security operation in the Tajik city of Khorog, media sources reported. Mamadbokir ...

DUSHANBE, July 23 (Itar-Tass) — Two people suspected of complicity to the murder of state security General Abdullo Nazarov have been detained in Khorog, a regional interior department told Itar-Tass ...

Just before dawn on July 24 of last year, the government of Tajikistan began a military operation in the small town of Khorog on the Afghanistan border. According to the government, the attack was ...

Khorog, the town where Global Voices community member Alexander Sodiqov was wrongfully arrested and detained for conducting academic research, is a faraway place. Khorog is faraway because it is ...

Thousands of residents in the capital of the Gorno-Badakshan region in eastern Tajikistan were trapped Thursday for a third consecutive day without any connection to the outside world, government ...

The fighting is the most severe in Tajikistan for almost two years and will worry Western politicians who are counting on the former Soviet state to act as a bulwark against any surge north by Islamic ...