At least five prisoners who supported Islamic State were killed after attacking guards with knives and trying to break out of a jail in Tajikistan, a law enforcement source said.

Several prisoners who supported Islamic State were on February 3 shot dead by prison guards in Tajikistan after launching an ...

A prison riot in Tajikistan resulted in the deaths of five Islamic State-linked prisoners after they attacked guards with ...

At least five prisoners were killed and three prison employees injured in a riot triggered by an attempted escape at a prison ...

A source in Tajik law enforcement ... what they said were dead prisoners in puddles of blood. At least one wore a hat with the Islamic State flag. Andrei Serenko, a Central Asia analyst, said ...

DUSHANBE, - At least five prisoners were killed and three employees were injured in a riot spurred by an attempted escape from a prison in the Tajikistan city of Vahdat, two sources in the country's ...

At least five prisoners who supported Islamic State were killed after attacking guards with knives and trying to break out of a jail in Tajikistan, a law enforcement source said.

The secretive “coup” trial of nearly a dozen former Tajik officials, politicians, and journalists ended in lengthy sentences, according to reporting by RFE/RL’s Tajik Service, Radio Ozodi.

At least five prisoners who supported Islamic State were killed after attacking guards with knives and trying to break out of ...