Afghanistan’s ethnic diversity has ... economic and cultural marginalisation. The Tajiks are the second-biggest ethnic group, making up more than a quarter of the Afghan population.

The Tajiks are the principal ethnic group of Afghanistan’s northeast. Tajiks comprise about 25 to 30 percent of the population and are defined as Sunni Moslems who speak Dari, a derivative of Farsi.

The City of Dandenong has called in police amid a volatile dispute in the Afghan community over a push to change the name of ...

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (TTP) and Jamaat Ansarullah (JA) have established training camps in Afghanistan with support from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, the United Nations Analytical ...

TASS/. Russia proceeds from the assumption that all ethnic groups in Afghanistan must have a say in running the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Tajikistan’s ...

The Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia) may lose stability in Afghanistan ... If the Taliban fail to attract ethnic groups to governing the country (Tajiks and Uzbeks in the North, and so ...

U.S. authorities have arrested a Tajik national accused of funneling tens of thousands of dollars to Islamic State fighters ...

Tajikistan is a landlocked country of some 10 million people sandwiched between Afghanistan ... for urging young people not to join radical groups. The Islamic State militant group was defeated ...

The arrest of a Tajik man in New York on a charge of sending money to members of terrorist network Islamic State (IS or ISIS) ...

These ethnic groups have long been marginalised under ... and linguistic ties with Afghanistan's Tajik population. Tajikistan has consistently opposed Taliban rule, citing concerns over the ...