The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan is operating training camps in four Afghan provinces, while Jamaat Ansarullah is ...

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.

Several million ethnic Tajiks live in Afghanistan. The world in focus ... announced that they had shot dead five members of the Jamaat Ansarullah jihadist group on the Afghan border. Tajiks support ...

A court in Tajikistan has sentenced three men to prison sentences ranging from two to 26 years for attempting to kill the Central Asian republic's chief mufti last year, the head of the Supreme Court ...

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 ...

“Dozens of Tajikistan citizens have been killed in our operations and dozens of others have been arrested,” acting Defense Minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid said. Tajikistan is the strongest ...

At least five prisoners who supported Islamic State were killed after attacking guards with knives and trying to break out of a jail in Tajikistan, a law enforcement source said.

Ethnic tensions in Afghanistan have been exacerbated by nearly a decade of conflict between armed factions rooted in different ethnic, religious, and tribal groups. Human Rights Watch has reported ...

To undermine the Taliban, Al-Azaim calls it an ethnic Pashtun nationalist ... which led the group to the recruitment of ...