DUSHANBE, Tajikistan – Tajikistan is holding a referendum on changing the Constitution to allow its authoritarian president to run for the office indefinitely, effectively allowing him to rule for ...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan – A court in Tajikistan has sentenced two leaders of the Central Asian nation's banned Islamic opposition party to life imprisonment over an alleged attempted coup. The Supreme ...

The story of a nation finding it's own cultural identity surrounded by Russia, China, and Afghanistan. It's economy is also ...

The trial in Tajikistan of a group of men suspected of involvement in a deadly attack on a group of foreign cyclists is coming to a close. Prosecutors on November 19 asked for the suspected ringleader ...

DUSHANBE, TajikistanDUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Islam is on the rise in Tajikistan, and the only legally registered Islamic party in former Soviet Central Asia hopes to capitalize on that momentum in ...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) — Tajikistan held a referendum Sunday on changing the Constitution to allow its authoritarian president to run for office indefinitely, effectively allowing him to rule for ...

Prosecutors in Tajikistan are demanding life prison sentences for four leaders of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) for their alleged roles in what authorities say was a coup ...

A leader of a banned Islamic party in Tajikistan has voiced concern over the fate of 16 opposition leaders, who are currently in government custody. Muhiddin Tilloevich Kabiri, head of the Islamic ...

Firuz Arimzoda Stories about children in Tajikistan often focus on their hardships. The Central Asian nation has some of the worst poverty rates in the former Soviet Union. Thousands of children each ...

The closed-door trial of more than a dozen leaders of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) ended this week. The IRPT’s deputy leaders, Mahmadali Hayit and Saidumar Khusaini, were given ...

Rajabgul Boboyeva’s workday begins before dawn and lasts until the early evening. For the past year, she has joined the ranks of Tajikistan’s uncounted mardikor – casual laborers who will take a day’s ...

In the past four years he has lost 13 close relatives to the disease. "The last to die were my daughter and my brother," he says. "I buried them on the same day." Mirzo lives in the village of ...