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Several thousand people have gathered in Tajikistan's eastern Gorno-Badakhshan region to protest the latest incident of bloodshed in the area.
Tajikistan's Defense Ministry has denied that recent deadly clashes are behind an order calling on all males aged between 18 and 45 years of age to report to military offices in the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region.
Local authorities in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, have rewarded the country's only Olympic medalist, Mavzuna Chorieva, with a three-room apartment in the city.
Authorities have removed military checkpoints in the eastern Tajik town of Khorugh, the scene of recent deadly clashes between government troops and illegal armed groups.
Tajik authorities say that Tolib Ayombekov, head of a rebel group accused of killing a high-ranking security official, has surrendered to the authorities in the eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Province.
Prosecutors have asked Tajikistan's Supreme Court to sentence a former senior official at the Presidential Drugs Control Agency to 22 years in jail for his alleged involvement in drugs smuggling.
The Tajik government says a group of young fighters who were engaged in clashes with security forces have begun to lay down their arms.
Tajik prosecutors say militants who were engaged in clashes with security forces this week have refused to lay down their weapons despite a cease-fire.
Tajikistan's military has ended operations in the eastern province of Badakhshan. Dozens are reported to have died in fighting that broke out in the restive region following the July 21 assassination of a key regional figure.
Tajik officials say 12 government troops and 30 militants have been killed as government troops, backed by helicopters, launched an operation targeting a group suspected of involvement in the killing of a top Tajik security official.
Tajik government forces have launched an operation in the eastern Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous province targeting a group suspected of involvement in the killing of a top officer of the State Committee for National Security.
fficials at Tajikistan's Prosecutor-General's office say two suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of a top officer of the State Committee for National Security.
RFE/RL’s Tajik service reports that a prominent Tajik opposition figure and security official has been assassinated.
Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry has denied a Russian general's statement that Dushanbe has agreed to accept Moscow's conditions to extend Russia's rights to use a military base on Tajik territory for a further 49 years.
Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi has told journalists in Dushanbe that no talks are being held with Washington on a possible military base on Tajik territory.
Police in Tajikistan say President Emomali Rahmon's brother-in-law has been shot dead in Dushanbe.
Internet access to Tajikistan's leading independent news agency Asia Plus remains cut off for a second day.
The European Union office in Dushanbe says a French female diplomat has been ordered by EU officials to leave Tajikistan after she and her husband were accused of assaulting Tajik police officers in a drunken confrontation.
Tajikistan's Association of Internet Service Providers says the cost of accessing the Internet in the Central Asian country is set to increase by four percent starting July 1.
Officials say the refusal of five Tajik citizens jailed in Afghanistan to return home is stalling the return to Afghanistan of nearly 100 Afghans jailed in Tajikistan.
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