DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Russia extended its military presence in Tajikistan for 30 years on Friday in a deal to secure the southern fringes of its former Soviet empire after NATO troops leave Afghanistan ...

ALMATY, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Tajikistan is in talks with Russia and a Moscow-led regional security grouping about the possibility of Russia deploying troops to jointly patrol the volatile border with ...

LONDON/HULBUK, Tajikistan (Reuters) - When Abubakr Yusufi boarded a flight to Moscow in July, he thought he wouldn't be home for years. The 23-year-old from a small village in Tajikistan hoped to join ...

Some 3,400 Tajik migrant workers have not been allowed to enter Russia and turned back to Tajikistan from Russian airports over the last six months, the director of the Tajik Civil Aviation Agency, ...

KHORUGH, Tajikistan -- The parents of five young Tajik men from the volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region (GBAO) told RFE/RL on July 1 that the sons had been arrested and are being held in a pretrial ...

Two militant raids from Afghanistan have killed five Chinese workers in Tajik border regions, prompting emergency security actions. Tajikistan is negotiating joint border patrols with Russia while ...

Tajik Prime Minister Qohir Rasulzoda noted that his country took into account the considerations of the Russian colleagues regarding special requirements and the profitability of launching joint ...

According to Tajik Deputy Minister of Labor, Migration and Employment Shakhnoza Nodiri, checks conducted by the Tajik authorities revealed that more than 50% of those put on Russia’s list had already ...