Sources: BBC
Three Islamic State-linked inmates are killed and three guards are injured in a prison riot in Vakhdat District, Tajikistan. 2025-02-3
The death toll from torrential rains in Tajikistan increase to 21, as flooding, landslides, and mudflows affect towns near Dushanbe. 2023-08-30
Tajikistan says that over 350 citizens from Afghanistan have crossed the Afghan–Tajik border. 2021-07-14
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan complete the withdrawal of their forces from the border. 2021-05-3
Tajikistan reports its first confirmed cases of COVID-19. Five people have tested positive for the virus in the capital Dushanbe, and 10 others in the northern Sughd Region, according to the state-run news agency Khovar. 2020-04-30
Twenty gunmen open fire around a border checkpoint between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, killing a border guard and a policeman. Fifteen assailants are killed and five others captured. 2019-11-6
Three Russian climbers and two Tajik pilots die while 12 other people are injured in a helicopter crash in Tajikistan. 2018-08-13
A powerful, magnitude 7.2 earthquake has shaken Tajikistan. It was felt as far away as India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. No damage or casualties have been reported as the epicenter lies within the vast Badakhshan national park. The US Geological Survey describes the area as one of the “most seismically hazardous regions on Earth” because of tectonic activity along shifting fault lines. 2015-12-7
China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan conduct an anti-terror drill in the restive Xinjiang region of western China. 2011-05-7
Mudslides and floods have killed 16, and more than 40 are missing in some districts of the southern Khatlon region in Tajikistan. 2010-05-8