Hundreds of Tajiks from the southern town of Kulob say they're prepared to join anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan ... a predominantly ethnic-Tajik region that has repelled Taliban incursions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fleeing the Taliban, the Tajik family left Afghanistan for a city better known for its music scene than its immigrant population. Their first question: “How do we start our life?” The Tajik ...

The TTP helped the Afghan Taliban battle the US and the prior Afghan government and is known to have a safe haven in eastern Afghanistan. JA, which is commonly referred to as the Tajik Taliban, “had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Taliban in Afghanistan — even before its full return to power — put Jamaat Ansarullah (sometimes referred to as the Tajik Taliban, and banned in Tajikistan as a terrorist group in 2012 ...