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Burhanuddin Rabbani

Afghanistan: The Taliban’s first fall and an opening for Tajik journalists

Journalists from Tajikistan played vital roles for many foreign news agencies.
Text by a Tajik journalist, Photos by Parviz Amirjonov May 20, 2022
China Afghanistan

China in Afghanistan: “Not a luxury but a necessity”

Washington and Beijing have strikingly similar objectives in Afghanistan.
Eshel Rosen May 13, 2022
A spot of border: The ISKP are talking up their ability to mount attacks on countries neighboring Afghanistan. (Photo: David Trilling)

Tajikistan: ISKP claims new cross-border attack, officials deny

The militant group claimed last month that it had launched a rocket attack on Uzbekistan.
Kamila Ibragimova May 9, 2022
Uzbek drone

Uzbekistan denies Russian claim it violated Afghanistan’s airspace

Tashkent has also announced it will not return Afghan aircraft flown by pilots fleeing the Taliban last summer.
Joanna Lillis May 2, 2022
Militant propaganda is singling out the Uzbek government for particular venom.

Perspectives | ISKP’s Uzbekistan-directed attack bolsters rhetoric with deeds

The militant group may be plotting to undermine faith in the Taliban's ability to secure the country's borders.
Lucas Webber, Riccardo Valle Apr 25, 2022
Images disseminated by ISKP social media claiming to show the moment of the rocket launch.

Uzbekistan pours scorn on claims of ISKP attack

The militant movement claims to have fired rockets from Afghanistan at a military unit near Termez.
Apr 19, 2022
The Taliban say no more. (David Trilling/Eurasianet file photo)

Uzbekistan hails Taliban ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan

Uzbekistan is eager for a success story on its southern border that could facilitate new trade routes.
Joanna Lillis Apr 11, 2022
(Chinese MFA)

Don’t forget Afghanistan, pleads Uzbekistan, as Ukraine war rages

Russia used the meeting in China to emphasize its importance in Central Asia.
Joanna Lillis Apr 1, 2022
CSTO

Perspectives | Can Russia protect Central Asia from an Islamist threat?

Any faith Central Asian governments had in Russian military power has no doubt been shaken by its glaring failures in Ukraine.
Bruce Pannier Mar 31, 2022
Islamic State video screenshot

Perspectives | Islamic State in Afghanistan seeks to recruit Uzbeks, Tajiks, Kyrgyz

ISKP is reaching out to minorities in Afghanistan and their ethnic cousins in post-Soviet Central Asia.
Lucas Webber, Riccardo Valle Mar 17, 2022
Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Komilov. (Photo: Narodnoe Slovo)

Uzbekistan warns of security risks of failing to prevent Afghan humanitarian crisis

Komilov has urged the international community to show more flexibility toward the Taliban regime.
Feb 9, 2022
CSTO exercises in southern Tajikistan last fall (Russian Defense Ministry)

Tajikistan, Uzbekistan make deals with Taliban, but watch border warily

A power outage illustrates in stark terms how much leverage Uzbekistan enjoys over its troubled neighbor to the south.
Jan 14, 2022
Turkmen troops

Turkmenistan: A leopard never changes its spots

Turkmenistan continues to face challenges, but there is little chance that the solutions will become any less hapless in 2022 under Berdymukhamedov’s tutelage.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Jan 4, 2022
The head of the opposition-run embassy in Dushanbe, Zahir Aghbar. (Photo: Eurasianet)

Taliban accidentally wires money to Tajikistan-based opposition

The embassy says it refuses to give back the cash.
Kamila Ibragimova Dec 20, 2021
A screenshot of Uzbek militants pledging allegiance to IS.

Perspectives | Islamic State continues anti-Taliban PR push, with Tashkent in crosshairs

The Islamic State in Afghanistan is using the Taliban’s cozy relations with Uzbekistan as propaganda fodder.
Lucas Webber Dec 9, 2021

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