On November 8, violence broke out at the Khujand prison in Tajikistan’s northern Sughd region. Tajik authorities have been slow in revealing details about the prison riot but it now seems that ...

For many centuries, the city of Khujand in Tajikistan, a mountainous Muslim-majority country, had been a center of Jewish presence in Central Asia. But the once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews ...

A few dozen Jews, many of them Ashkenazi, still live in the capital of Dushanbe, situated about 150 miles south of the northern city of Khujand, one of the region’s oldest with a 2,500-year-old ...

Media in Tajikistan have reported that numerous inmates have been killed during a riot at a high-security prison in the northern city of Khujand. A Dushanbe-based correspondent for RIA-Novosti, a ...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, June 6. Governor of Russia's Tyumen region Alexander Moor and Chairman of Tajikistan's Sughd region Rajabboy Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...

Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are holding their first-ever summit in Khujand as they celebrate International Day of Nowruz. The meeting comes amid the final resolution of the border ...

MINSK, 27 May (BelTA) - Belarus’ Minsk Oblast and Tajikistan’s Sughd Province signed an action plan for 2025-2026. The document was signed by Chairman of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee ...

20 May 2023 In the recent past, certain areas of Tajikistan such as the Sughd region have experienced increased cases of armed conflicts. Occasionally, escalating and dangerous conditions have ...

Close cooperation and joint projects between Belarus' Mogilev Oblast and the Sughd Region of Tajikistan will have a positive impact on the relations between the two countries, Minsk Oblast ...