Sources: CP
Eleven people are killed in a collision between a truck and two cars on the Dushanbe-Kulob-Khorog highway near Vahdat, Tajikistan. 2026-07-2
Taliban defense minister Mullah Yaqoob says that security forces have killed or arrested several militants from Tajikistan and Pakistan who are accused of multiple attacks in Afghanistan. 2023-12-31
Tajikistan says that over 350 citizens from Afghanistan have crossed the Afghan–Tajik border. 2021-07-14
The Taliban takes control of several further districts overnight as Afghan troops abandon their posts and flee into neighboring Tajikistan via Badakhshan Province. The State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan reports that more than 300 Afghan troops crossed the Tajik border as Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid confirms that most of the territory was gained without a fight. 2021-07-4
An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 strikes 35 kilometres west of Murghob, Tajikistan. The tremors are felt as far away as northern India and Pakistan. 2021-02-12
Local Tajikistan police have shaved nearly 13,000 men's beards, closed more than 150 shops selling traditional Muslim clothing, and convinced around 1,800 women and girls to stop wearing headscarves in 2015 as part of a campaign to eradicate foreign influences in the former Soviet Republic. 2016-01-21
The governments of Somalia, Tajikistan and Brunei ban celebrations of Christmas, with punishments ranging up to a five-year jail term. Each country has a majority-Muslim population. 2015-12-23
Voters in Tajikistan go to the polls for a presidential election. 2013-11-6
BBC reporter Urunboy Usmonov, imprisoned in a Tajikistan jail in Dushanbe, is reported to be "frail". 2011-06-28
China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan conduct an anti-terror drill in the restive Xinjiang region of western China. 2011-05-7