Amid rising tensions, Tajikistan is fortifying its border with Afghanistan, supported by the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO)...

China may have deceived Tajikistan by establishing a full-scale military base near the Tajik-Afghan border, instead of a joint counter-terr...

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Friday's mass shooting at a concert hall near Moscow that killed at least 137 people. U.S. off...

The two meetings assume significance as both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are neighbours of Afghanistan and have been worried about any migrat...

Ahmad Masoud, an ethnic Tajik and the son of legendary military commander Ahmad Shah Masoud, is reportedly carrying a message of Tajik Pres...

The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan on August 15, two weeks before the US' complete troop withdrawal on August 31 after a costly two-de...

Rahmon, who has ruled Tajikistan for over two decades, is of the opinion that “it is necessary to create an inclusive government with the p...

Tajikistan, strategically placed in Central Asia, on Thursday awarded its highest distinction to former Afghan defence minister Massoud and...

After remaining in a lull for a couple of years the Afghan political stalemate is escalating again following the NATO’s withdrawal of troop...

Russia operates a military base in Tajikistan, a fellow ex-Soviet republic, whose government has expressed concern about the rapidly deteri...

The Taliban in recent weeks have brought huge swathes of Afghanistan under their control as foreign troops draw down, including the main Sh...

Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon on Monday ordered the mobilisation of 20,000 military reservists to bolster the border with Afghanistan aft...

The Afghan military exodus comes as Taliban overrun most districts in northeastern Badakhshan province. Many of the districts collapsed wit...

Pakistan’s intelligence agency has summoned the Taliban’s shadow governors and commanders to plan for a spring offensive in Afghanistan, Na...

Tajikistan shares a 1,400-km-long porus border with Afghanistan and has immense geo-strategic significance for India which has been providi...

India, Russia and Tajikistan agreed in 2002 to operate Ayni on a rotational basis once construction work at the air base was completed.

In the 1990s, India had run a famous field hospital at Farkor on the Tajik-Afghan border to treat wounded fighters from the then Northern A...