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Thousands of Afghans camped out in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province on the border with Tajikistan hope to leave their country and Taliban rule. Many had been at the border for weeks but now the Taliban has forced hundreds to flee the area amid reports of death threats from the militants.
The Taliban has relocated ethnic Uyghur militants from an area close to Afghanistan's small border with China. The development marks a sign of growing coordination between Beijing and the Taliban when it comes to dealing with Chinese security concerns.
Tahmina Talash and her husband, Tamim, both worked for civil society organizations in Afghanistan's Takhar Province as the Taliban gained power there. Fearing for their lives amid death threats, they fled to Tajikistan just before Tahmina gave birth to a daughter, Mohanna.
Taliban fighters have reportedly killed an Afghan man who tried to flee to neighboring Tajikistan and detained another man along the Afghan-Tajik border.
Russia has urged Tajikistan and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to take “mutually acceptable measures” to resolve tensions along the Tajik-Afghan border amid reports of an increased military build-up on both sides.
A Tajik court has sentenced a local woman to 12 years in prison for allegedly fighting alongside Islamic Sate (IS) militants in neighboring Afghanistan in 2015.
The prosecution has asked the Dushanbe City Court to sentence a well-known human rights defender, Izzat Amon, to nine years in prison on fraud charges.
Security sources in Tajikistan say they've received reports that Tajik Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan are searching for ways to cross into Tajikistan.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has called on the Taliban to form an inclusive government in neighboring Afghanistan with the participation of all political and ethnic groups in order to allay tensions in the war-torn country.
Tajikistan has begun releasing the first group of prisoners under a mass amnesty affecting some 16,000 people.
Tajikistan's national air carrier is on the brink of collapse. An RFE/RL investigation suggests the company's downfall has been orchestrated by its own top managers in an attempt to bolster the fortunes of the president's family.
Leaders of the Russia and China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are holding talks in the Tajik capital with their attention centered on the regional fallout from the U.S.-led international military withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s return to power.
Leaders of the Russia- and China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have urged the world to unfreeze Afghanistan's assets and boost assistance to the war-torn nation as it teeters on the brink of crisis following the Taliban’s return to power last month.
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