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TAJIKISTAN BORDER CONFLICT
Kabul's Kunar dam to limit water to Pak as mistrust flows onAfghanistan has taken a monumental step by initiating the construction of a dam on Kunar River, a strategic project designed to regulate wa...
Tajikistan readies defences along its Afghanistan borderAmid rising tensions, Tajikistan is fortifying its border with Afghanistan, supported by the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO)...
Shehbaz Sharif raises Indus Waters Treaty abeyance at Tajikistan forumPakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif raised concerns about the Indus Waters Treaty at a glacier conference in Tajikistan, accusing India...
Putin says conflicts in Ukraine, ex-USSR are 'result of Soviet collapse'Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that conflicts in countries of the former USSR, including Ukraine, are the result of the col...
Border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan kills nearly 100 peopleClashes between the two former Soviet countries broke out on Wednesday, killing nearly a hundred people and injuring even more. A ceasefire...
More than 80 dead in Tajik-Kyrgyz border clashesThe situation on the contested border between the two Central Asian neighbours was however calm on Sunday afternoon, according to Kyrgyz au...
Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border conflict escalates, both sides allege 'use of heavy weaponry'The foreign ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan met to resolve the issue, but the border guard agency said that two ceasefire agreements...
Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border boils, 1 killed, 2 injured in fresh conflictThe border guards of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have exchanged fire in two incidents following a dispute over the border that separates the ...
Post Soviet Eurasian military bloc CSTO begins drills near Afghan border"A ceremony took place at the Kharbmaidon practice range of the armed forces of the Republic of Tajikistan on October 18 to open the Echelo...
Dmitry Medvedev warns of spread of terrorists, radicals & refugees to Central Asia from AfghanistanHe has alleged that several Islamic state terrorists have gathered along Afghanistan’s borders with Central Asia and that Russia will conti...
Putin rules out any boots on ground in Afghanistan amid conflict between Taliban & OppositionHe recalled that the conflict in Afghanistan has been continuing for decades. "The former Soviet Union has its own experience in that count...
Pakistan deploys regular troops at forward areas along Afghan border as tensions rise: ReportMilitary spokesperson Major General Babar Iftikhar recently told a TV channel that troops were manning the border and the move would help p...
Russia to help Tajikistan build outpost on Afghan border: ReportRussia operates a military base in Tajikistan, a fellow ex-Soviet republic, whose government has expressed concern about the rapidly deteri...
Russia says Taliban ready for 'compromise'His comments came after another round of inconclusive talks in Qatar over the weekend between the Afghan government and the Taliban that ma...
Russia to reinforce military base in Tajikistan: ReportThe base will receive new BMP-2 vehicles this month, Interfax quoted Alexander Lapin, commander of Russia's Central Military District, whic...
Russia to hold Central Asia army drills near Afghan borderTroops from a Russian military base in Tajikistan and the Central Military District will take part in the games, the defence ministry said....
Taliban wins close consulates; Tajikistan reinforces borderThe Afghan military exodus comes as Taliban overrun most districts in northeastern Badakhshan province. Many of the districts collapsed wit...
Kyrgyzstan bars passengers from Tajikistan after deadly border violenceBorder disagreements between the three countries that share the fertile Fergana Valley -- Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- stem fro...
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan look to ease tensions after deadly clashesBut the shooting that broke out Thursday between the two militaries was the heaviest fighting in years and raised fears that it might escal...
A history of boorishness: Chronicling China's border brawls in the neighbourhoodChina shares its borders with 14 nations. (Not quite) surprisingly, it shares good ties with very few of them.