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A Tajik court has sent to prison 13 members of a banned Islamic group for recruiting residents of the northern province of Sughd to fight alongside militants in Syria.
An opposition Islamic party leader who is a member of Tajikistan's Central Election Commission has been detained on suspicion of illegal weapons possession ahead of March 1 parliamentary elections.
A Tajik doctor who was kidnapped by tribesmen in Yemen in October has been released.
A young Tajik military conscript has been hospitalized after attempting to commit suicide.
Tajik authorities say they have detained 11 people on suspicion of being adherents of a banned branch of Islam.
A senior U.S. diplomat says that Washington's ties with Tajikistan do not come "at the expense" of Dushanbe's relations with Moscow.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency has handed over an alleged leader of a banned Islamic group to Tajikistan.
An opposition politician who intended to run in Tajikistan's March 1 parliamentary election has been detained on embezzlement charges.
Prosecutors in Tajikistan have charged a Russian officer they say beat a man near the 201st military base's unit in the southern city of Kulob.
The head of the investigative department in Kyrgyzstan's Interior Ministry has said that 22 citizens of Kyrgyzstan have been killed in fighting in Syria.
Libyan officials say three Tajik citizens were among seven victims killed during a terrorist attack on a luxury hotel used by diplomats and businessmen in Tripoli.
A new criminal case against a jailed Tajik opposition businessman has been sent to a court in Dushanbe.
A Tajik border guard was wounded in an exchange of fire with an armed group trying to cross from Afghanistan on January 18
Tajikistan has formally asked Turkey to extradite fugitive opposition politician and businessman Umarali Quvatov.
A lawyer and opposition politician has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted of taking a bribe.
Officials in Tajikistan have made public the identities of four Tajik border guards who were reported abducted by an unidentified group based in Afghanistan last month.
Tajik authorities say a man from the Central Asian nation has been killed while fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
The suspected leader of a cell of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and 10 alleged subordinates have been detained in Tajikistan.
Tajikistan's government has expressed concern over young Tajiks receiving education at Islamic religious schools abroad.
YouTube and a popular Russian social network, Odnoklassniki, were inaccessible through many Internet service providers in Tajikistan on December 30.
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