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 ...

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 ...

Steve Smith believes the reality and hardship of the Civil War captured in music is as crucial to understanding the battle between North and South as speeches, documents and photos. Smith ...

"It's cheaper than conventional medicine, which is very expensive," the 42-year-old housewife told AFP. Since the fall of the Soviet Union and a civil war in the early 1990s, Tajikistan has been ...

By Bruce Pannier Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of some 15 million Ismaili Muslims worldwide, died in ...

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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 ...

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 ...