Over the past few years, Rahmon has openly groomed his son, Rustam Emomali, as his successor, installing him as the mayor of ...

before being abandoned due to the end of communist rule and then the Tajik civil war. At the site, dozens of bulldozers go up and down the mountains and dozens of kilometres of underground tunnels ...

Tajikistan has jailed a veteran journalist for criticizing regional officials and another reporter faces 17 years in prison on undisclosed charges in a new clampdown on independent media in the ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Tajikistan to strengthen relations strained since the 1990s civil war. Pezeshkian highlighted the linguistic and cultural ties, expressing a sense of ...

Amid chronic power outages, Tajikistan has embarked on the revival of a Soviet-era mega-project to build the world's highest dam. First planned in 1976, the Rogun Hydropower Project was abandoned due ...

before being abandoned due to the end of communist rule and then the Tajik civil war. At the site, dozens of bulldozers go up and down the mountains and dozens of kilometres of underground tunnels are ...

Despite linguistic and cultural ties, relations between Tehran and Dushanbe have been strained since the Tajik civil war in the 1990s. “I feel like I’m in Iran. I don’t feel like that anywhe ...