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 ...

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 ...

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 ...