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What awaits the returnees remains a mystery, however.

Many of the city's familiar landmarks have fallen as authorities scrub reminders of the Soviet past.

Al-Azaim Tajiki has become one of the most vigorous Islamic State evangelists targeting Central Asia.

It is still possible to avoid the draft by paying a large fee.

Government explanations are hard to believe, and do not hide the poverty and abuse fueling unrest.

Conventional media outlets have all been obliterated by the government.

Supporters are growing an online network in the Tajik language. Many of the donors appear to be in Russia.

Any success adapting this first group of children could represent a lifeline for the estimated 400 Kyrgyzstani women and children still languishing in northeast Syria.

When Tajik activists get into trouble, their Western partners “stand by mutely.”

Rural Tajiks are less aware of climate change. The government must improve education to prepare for the inevitable hardships that will impact them most.

Dushanbe wants obedience but treats the region as something to be exploited and ignored.

Journalists from Tajikistan played vital roles for many foreign news agencies.

One unwilling recruit was turned into an example, another an ICU patient.

Dushanbe says the volume of illegal narcotics it interdicted in 2021 increased by 69 percent year-on-year.

There are legal protections, and many holes.