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A soldier's best friend? (RFE/RL) October 3, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The Tajik army kicked off its new conscription drive this week, with military officials insisting that long-maligned conditions for ...
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - Lt. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, Third Army/ARCENT Commanding General, conducted his first visit since taking command with key leaders here Nov. 20-21.
The Tajik Army is now admitting that a young conscript who died last month in northern Khujand Province was beaten to death. Zafar Nizomov, an investigator at the military prosecutor's office in ...
Third Army Soldiers have responded to a request for assistance from the Government of Tajikistan due to a recent flood crisis. Within four hours of receiving notification on May 16, a Third Army ...
China is constructing a secret military base in Tajikistan, satellite images reveal, as it seizes on the rising threat to security posed by Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Beijing has been building the ...
Tajik citizens now can choose to serve and fight for Russia. (Photo: David Trilling) As of this year, there’s an army that’s ready to give a paying job to a few members of Tajikistan’s legion of ...
The Tajik army has completed its autumn conscription campaign in record time, amid reports of men being forced to join up - including a 62-year-old out for an evening stroll. Spokesman Orif ...
Tajik bretheren, go to the army and serve your motherland. It is a shame for a young man to cry like that. Shame on you, coward. Despite the kidnappings being illegal, a Tajik human rights defender ...
After a decade as a soldier in the Tajik army — and posted along border points to China and Kyrgyzstan — Jirgalber Lulbekov, 42, decided to make a living as a livestock breeder, like his ...
The Tajik army has completed its autumn conscription campaign in record time, amid reports of men being forced to join up - including a 62-year-old out for an evening stroll. Spokesman Orif ...
The Tajik army has completed its autumn conscription campaign in record time, amid reports of men being forced to join up - including a 62-year-old out for an evening stroll. Spokesman Orif ...