Sources: BBC
Tajikistan says that a border clash happened yesterday after Kyrgyz soldiers crossed the border close to Vorukh. 2022-06-4
Afghan presidential advisor Hamdullah Mohib says that there will be a counter-offensive against the Taliban in the north after the group captured six districts in Badakhshan Province. On Sunday, at least 1,037 Afghan troops abandoned their positions and fled into Tajikistan. 2021-07-5
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
The prosecutor general's office of Tajikistan launches a criminal investigation into servicemen and citizens of Kyrgyzstan for "unleashing an aggressive war". 2021-05-3
Long-term President Emomali Rakhmon is declared the victor of Tajikistan's latest presidential election with over 90% of the votes. 2020-10-12
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
Three Russian climbers and two Tajik pilots die while 12 other people are injured in a helicopter crash in Tajikistan. 2018-08-13
Authorities in Tajikistan are to ban divorce by text message. 2011-04-11
The second case of poliomyelitis in two days is reported in Russia, in Russia's first polio cases in 15 years, with the virus believed to have come from Tajikistan. 2010-05-13