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Tajikistan announces that it killed three Jamaat Ansarullah Islamist militants on 29–30 August after the militants crossed the border from Afghanistan to carry out terrorist attacks in Tajikistan.
2023-09-6

The death toll from torrential rains in Tajikistan increase to 21, as flooding, landslides, and mudflows affect towns near Dushanbe.
2023-08-30

The Afghan embassy in Tajikistan issues a request to INTERPOL to arrest former president Ghani on the accusation that Ghani stole from the country's treasury when he left Afghanistan.
2021-08-18

Tajikistan becomes the first country to make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for adults.
2021-07-3

At least six people are killed in clashes between supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian police.
2015-07-17

Egypt's army-backed authorities decide to annul the Muslim Brotherhood's non-governmental organization status.
2013-09-6

Egyptian security forces clear a Cairo mosque after a long stand-off with the Muslim Brotherhood.
2013-08-17

Voters in Egypt go to the polls for the second round of a presidential election, with ex-Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq and Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood competing for the presidency.
2012-06-16

BBC reporter Urunboy Usmonov, imprisoned in a Tajikistan jail in Dushanbe, is reported to be "frail".
2011-06-28

Several prison breaks occur, including the escape of 5,000 from a jail in Faiyum Governorate, many including 34 members of the Muslim Brotherhood from Wadi El Natrun, where eight people were killed in riots, and at least eight Hamas militants from Abu Zaabal Prison in Cairo, two of them escaping to Gaza, and two policemen and twelve escaped inmates were killed there; many more escaped from Tora Prison in Cairo, close to where 'dozens' of people were killed. Soldiers have been deployed outside of many prisons.
2011-01-30