Afghanistan is a multi-ethnic country ... The leading component of the Northern Alliance, forces built up by the late Ahmed Shah Masood, a Tajik, fought Hizb-i-Wahadat at various times in the ...

He is also the founder of the Tajik’s Council of Afghanistan. Tajiks constituted ... power in the country in favour of the Pashtun tribe. Pashtun chauvinism has posed deep political and military ...

KHORUGH, Tajikistan -- Firefighters in eastern Tajikistan are complaining that they are receiving false emergency calls made from neighboring Afghanistan, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.

As the Taliban continues to maintain that it doesn’t allow foreign fighters in Afghanistan, a Tajik national and commander for the Al Qaeda-linked Jamaat Ansarullah remains in control of several ...

DUSHANBE -- When the Taliban captured a strategically important security checkpoint near Afghanistan's border with Tajikistan last month, it assigned a Tajik militant to raise the Taliban flag on ...

Women, men and children came, and not just from Massoud's Tajik ethnic group. Sponsor Message "Commander Massoud was fighting for a pluralistic Afghanistan," says Amrullah Saleh, a close adviser ...

an ethnic Tajik whom they viewed as anti-Pashtun and corrupt. That year, the Taliban declared Afghanistan an Islamic emirate, with Mullah Mohammed Omar, a cleric and veteran of the anti-Soviet ...

Supplying Afghanistan through the Tajik-Afghan border The route is known as the Northern Distribution Network, the NDN. It is a series of rail, water and road links via Russia, the Caucasus and ...

The number of Tajik citizens in IS-K is "fairly small," said David Sedney, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, adding, "but they are ...

But in August 2021, shortly before Tajik was to graduate from the university, history intervened. The United States withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, and the Taliban returned to power.

Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin told reporters on Thursday the situation at the 843-mile-long (1,350 km) border with Afghanistan was "under control" and the frontier "heavily guarded ...