Tajikistan holds its largest military exercise, mobilizing 130,000 servicemen in addition to 100,000 active servicemen and parades more than 1,000 military vehicles and many more warfare equipment and military helicopters. PresidentEmomali Rakhmon urged Tajik people to protect the "peace and stability achieved at a high price" amid a Taliban offensive in neighboring Afghanistan.
/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/B62NMACXQVLCDBOJFDQYGJRAAE.jpg "Afghan neighbour Tajikistan holds largest ever military exercise © Reuters")