Sources: Dawn
Four alleged drug traffickers are fatally shot in an overnight shootout with border guards while crossing the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border into Tajikistan. 2026-01-19
Tajik president Emomali Rahmon signs a law decriminalizing the "liking" of posts on social media publicly calling for terrorism or other serious crimes. 2025-05-14
Authorities in Russia arrest a fifth suspect in last month's attack on a music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia, a Tajik man accused of providing the attackers with financing and communication. 2024-04-27
Three people in Lakhsh District, eastern Tajikistan are killed by a landslide. 2023-06-1
Tajikistan says that a border clash happened yesterday after Kyrgyz soldiers crossed the border close to Vorukh. 2022-06-4
Around 200 anti-government militants block a road in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan, which links the country to China. Some of the militants, armed with firearms and petrol bombs, later ambush a security convoy on the same road. Eight militants and one officer are killed, while 13 officers are injured and more than 70 militants are arrested. The Tajik interior ministry later say the attack was an attempt to "destabilise the social and political situation" in the region. 2022-05-18
Commercial flights have resumed between the Tajikistan capital, Dushanbe, and the Uzbekistan city of Bukhara amid improving ties. 2018-08-6
At least 17 people are injured in Peshawar, Pakistan, and five people are hurt in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit near the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border. The epicenter is in Afghanistan's quake-prone Ishkashim district, a mountainous area where mainly impoverished farmers live in homes made with mud, according to Peshawar District Officer Muhmand Asim Khan. Other details about damage or casualties are not presently available. 2015-12-25
Authorities in Tajikistan close access to Facebook and sites with material critical of President Emomali Rakhmon. 2012-03-3
At least one Islamist militant from the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is killed in an operation in Tajikistan. 2010-10-29