Tajikistan

Tajiks and Afghans buy and sell in the border bazaar in the Tajik town of Kalai-Khumb. Photo: AFP
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Afghans and Tajiks mix in rare but vital border bazaar

The popular bazaar in the small town of Kalai-Khumb -- about six hours' drive east from the Tajik capital Dushanbe -- has reopened after being shut down after the Taliban retook control of...

FILE PHOTO: People line up to lay flowers at a makeshift memorial to the victims of a shooting attack set up outside the Crocus City Hall concert venue in the Moscow Region, Russia, March 24, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
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Tajikistan detains 9 people over Russian concert shooting

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Strong earthquake strikes Tajikistan, near border with China

Rescue workers set up tents at a shelter following a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Moxi town, Luding county, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, China September 5, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS/File Photo
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Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Tajikistan, near border with China

A view shows a burnt armoured personnel carrier of Kyrgyz forces near Golovnoi water distribution facility outside the village of Kok-Tash in Batken province, Kyrgyzstan May 5, 2021. The clashes broke out last week along the frontier between Tajikistan's Sughd province and Kyrgyzstan's southern Batken province because of a dispute over a reservoir and pump, claimed by both sides, on the Isfara River. REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov/File Photo
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Kyrgyzstan asks Russia-led bloc to send peacekeepers to Tajik border

FILE PHOTO: Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov shakes hands with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon during a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Sultan Dosaliev/Kyrgyz Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
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Kyrgyz leader urges calm after deadly conflict with Tajikistan

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Sputnik/Alexander Demyanchuk/Pool via REUTERS
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Putin calls on Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to de-escalate

Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan trade blame over new border attacks
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Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan trade blame over new border attacks

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon attend a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Sultan Dosaliev/Kyrgyz Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
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Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan ceasefire holds up after border fighting

File picture of a military drill held in early April in the border region of Batken in Kyrgyzstan. Photo: Getty Images via BBC
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Kyrgyzstan reports heavy fighting with Tajikistan, 24 people killed

A member of the Afghan air force marshals in an A-29 Super Tucano at Hamid Karzai International Airport near Kabul, Afghanistan, January 15, 2016. Picture taken January 15, 2016. To match Special Photo :Reuters
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Exclusive: US hopes to soon relocate Afghan pilots who fled to Tajikistan, official says

An aerial view shows a military parade of Tajik army near the border with Afghanistan in the town of Khorog (Khorugh), Tajikistan September 30, 2021. Press Service of President of Tajikistan/Handout via REUTERS
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Russia says it will protect Tajikistan in case of incursion from Afghanistan

Tajik service members take part in a military parade near the border with Afghanistan in the town of Khorog (Khorugh), Tajikistan September 30, 2021. Press Service of President of Tajikistan/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.
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Russia urges calm between ally Tajikistan, Afghanistan