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 ...

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 -- Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has held ... Rahmon said that the positions of his country and Turkmenistan on Afghanistan, as well as on the fight against terrorism and drug ...

amid Russian media reports of a militant Tajik group preparing a cross-border attack. Tajiks are the second largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and make up a majority of the population in some ...

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 ...

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.

Before their 12 weeks of advanced commando training, many of the recruits would have been more likely to respond that they were Pashtun, Tajik or another of Afghanistan’s more than a dozen ...

President Emomali Rahmon has been downright hostile. In August 2021, he stated his government would not recognize the Taliban’s rule over Afghanistan unless the country’s ethnic Tajik minority, which ...

As the world watches the crisis in Afghanistan, one Syracuse Afghan family is taking action to help those in need in their country. The Tajik family will cook and serve takeout meals on Friday ...

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 ...