Tajkistan, Security

17:02, april 16, 2015

Russia will continue strengthening its outpost in Tajikistan, says Russian defense minister

In a statement delivered at the 4th Moscow internationals security conference, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu noted on April 16 that Russia will continue strengthening its outpost – Russian

15:04, april 15, 2015

Resident of Shahritous detained for calling on young Tajik men to go to war in Syria

QURGHON TEPPA, April 15, 2015, Asia-Plus -- Resident of the Shahritous district in Khatlon province has been detained for calling on young Tajik men to go to war in Syria.

14:30, april 15, 2015

Sughd province reportedly reaches 63.3 % of its spring conscription campaign target

KHUJAND, April 15, 2015, Asia-Plus -- by April 15, Sughd province has reached 63.

10:47, april 15, 2015

Afghan national detained with large amount of drugs in Gorno Badakhshan

DUSHANBE, April 15, 2015, Asia-Plus – An Afghan national has been detained with a large amount of drugs in the Darvoz district of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).

09:56, april 15, 2015

Tajik man told to 'kill everyone brutally' during training to join Islamic State

DUSHANBE, April 15, 2015, Asia-Plus – The 24-year-old resident of the Shahritous district in the southern province of Khatlon Parviz Nabiyev last month returned from Turkey, where he had taken the

09:31, april 15, 2015

Drug peddler from Tajikistan detained at the Novosibirsk airport

DUSHANBE, April 15, 2015, Asia-Plus – Tajik citizen, 49, has been detained at the Tolmachyovo Airport in the Russian city of Novosibirsk for drug trafficking, Siberian Customs Directorate (STU)

15:35, april 14, 2015

SCO Security Council Secretaries meet in Moscow to discuss cooperation issues

DUSHANBE, April 14, 2015, Asia-Plus - The program of military interaction between the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states is on the agenda of a meeting of the SCO Security Council

15:14, april 14, 2015

Bordyuzha says NATO ignores proposals on cooperation with CSTO

DUSHANBE, April 14, 2015, Asia-Plus -- NATO and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) face the same challenges and threats, CSTO Secretary-General Nikolai Bordyuzha told Russian news

14:14, april 13, 2015

Tajik paratroopers together with servicemen from Russia and Belarus land near North Pole

DUSHANBE, April 13, 2015, Asia-Plus – Russian media outlets report 85 Russian paratroopers together with 15 servicemen from Tajikistan and Belarus landed on a drifting ice floe near the North Pole

10:24, april 13, 2015

23rd anniversary of Tajikistan’s Internal Troops marked in Khujand

KHUJAND, April 13, 2015, Asia-Plus - The 23rd anniversary of the formation of the Internal Troops of Tajikistan was marked at the end of the last week at Interior Ministry military unit 3501

16:37, april 10, 2015

Helping Tajikistan, Russia defends itself, says Russian senior military official

DUSHANBE, April 10, 2015, Asia-Plus – Helping Tajikistan, Russia defends itself and other member nations of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) against terrorist threats, Russian

10:09, april 10, 2015

CSTO Military Committee meets in Tajikistan to discuss IS threat

KHUJAND, April 10, 2015, Asia-Plus -- A press conference on the results of a two-day meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Military Committee was held in the Tajik northern

16:03, april 9, 2015

A meeting on the Heroin Route project held in Dushanbe

DUSHANBE, April 9, 2015, Asia-Plus -- A meeting on the project, Information Networks along the Heroin Route, took place in the Tajik Drug Control Agency (DCA)’s office in Dushanbe on April 8.

16:19, april 8, 2015

Tajikistan ratifies CIS information security agreement

DUSHANBE, April 8, 2015, Asia-Plus -- The Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) today ratified an agreement on cooperation among the CIS nations on providing information

16:05, april 8, 2015

Tajikistan ratifies security agreement signed between Tajik and Iranian interior ministries

DUSHANBE, April 8, 2015, Asia-Plus -- Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament ratified a government-to-government agreement between Tajikistan and Iran on cooperation for law

15:45, april 8, 2015

Challenges and threats in the CSTO area of responsibility discussed in Dushanbe

DUSHANBE, April 8, 2015, Asia-Plus – Issues related to challenges and threats in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) area of responsibility (AoR) are a major topic of a two-day

14:49, april 8, 2015

One more Tajik national reportedly detained in Turkey for illegally crossing into Syria

DUSHANBE, April 8, 2015, Asia-Plus -- Twelve foreigners, including one Tajik national, have reportedly been detained in Turkey after allegedly trying to enter Syria illegally.

11:25, april 8, 2015

CIS aerospace defense concept discussed in Dushanbe

DUSHANBE, April 8, 2015, Asia-Plus – Russian media outlets report that the CIS aerospace defense concept was discussed at a meeting of the Coordinating Committee for Air Defense under the CIS

11:07, april 8, 2015

Exercise for JADS to be conducted in Russia and Kazakhstan in September this year

DUSHANBE, April 8, 2015, Asia-Plus – An exercise for the Joint CIS Air Defense System (JADS) will be conducted in Russia and Kazakhstan in September this year.

16:37, april 7, 2015

CIS air defense coordinating committee holds meeting in Dushanbe

DUSHANBE, April 7, 2015, Asia-Plus – In a statement delivered at a meeting of the Coordinating Committee for Air Defense under the CIS Council of Defense Ministers in Dushanbe, Tajik Defense

14:33, april 6, 2015

Three Afghan drug traffickers detained with nearly 58 kilos of drugs in Farkhor

DUSHANBE, April 6, 2015, Asia-Plus -- Three Afghan drug traffickers have reportedly been detained with a large amount of drugs in the Tajik southern province of Khatlon.

18:41, april 4, 2015

Mullo Abdullo’s confederate reportedly detained in the Nourobod district

DUSHANBE, April 4, 2014, Asia-Plus – The Tajik law enforcement authorities say one of former members of an organized criminal group led by Abdullo Rahimov, also known as Mullo Abdullo, has been

18:25, april 4, 2015

Two Tajik nationals reportedly detained in Turkey for illegally crossing into Syria

DUSHANBE, April 4, 2015, Asia-Plus – Turkish news agency Anadolu reports seven foreigners, including two Tajik nationals, have been detained in Turkey after allegedly trying to enter Syria

16:06, april 4, 2015

Overall strength of Russian base in Tajikistan will reach 9,000 servicemen by 2020

DUSHANBE, April 4, 2015, Asia-Plus /Haidar Shodiyev/ -- On April 2, representatives of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the Collective Security Treaty Organization

16:05, april 4, 2015

Russia expected to provide RR70 bln worth of military and technical assistance to Tajikistan

DUSHANBE, April 4, 2015, Asia-Plus – Russian newspaper Kommersant reports the Russian side has expressed its readiness to provide 70 billion Russian rubles (RR) worth of military and

11:48, april 3, 2015

Interior minister names Tajik regions ‘exporting’ militants

More than 200 Tajik nationals are currently in the ranks of Islamic State (IS) militants fighting in Syria, says Tajik interior minister.

13:41, april 2, 2015

Over 25,000 foreigners joined terrorist groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda: UN

DUSHANBE, April 2, 2015, Asia-Plus – The Associated Press reports that according to a new U.N.

11:10, april 2, 2015

Isfara resident gets long jail term for membership in IMU member

DUSHANBE, April 2, 2015, Asia-Plus – A men from the Tajik northern city of Isfara has got a long jail term for membership in the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).

09:37, april 2, 2015

Tajik Moscow University dropout may have joined IS, his father fears

DUSHANBE, April 2, 2015, Asia-Plus -- A Tajik man who was formerly a promising student at Russia''s prestigious Moscow State University (MGU) may have gone to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic

15:14, april 1, 2015