Topic: Tajikistan

Tajikistan blames Islamist militants for ambush

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan said on Monday foreign Islamist militants were responsible for killing at least 23 troops in an ambush near its border with Afghanistan, the latest attack to threaten stability in the Central Asian state.Defense Ministry spokesman Faridoon Makhmadaliyev said ...

23 Tajik soldiers die in terror attack: ministry

Tajikistan was on high alert Monday after Islamist militants were blamed for the deaths of at least 23 soldiers in the latest in a string of attacks to hit the volatile Central Asian state.The deadliest attack this year occurred Sunday when insurgents ...
Groups of "Islamist terrorists" attacked troops in Tajikistan Sunday, killing 23 of the soldiers, the defence ministry said."Twenty-three defence ministry troops are dead and another 10 were wounded in a terrorist attack committed in the afternoon in the east of Tajikistan," defence ...
An explosion ripped through a discotheque in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe on Monday injuring seven people in the latest blast to hit the troubled ex-Soviet state, police said.The explosion, which investigators said occurred Monday morning when an improvised explosive device detonated in the ...

Blast injures seven in Tajikistan nightclub

An explosion ripped through a discotheque in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe on Monday injuring seven people in the latest blast to hit the troubled ex-Soviet state, police said.The explosion, which investigators said occurred Monday morning when an improvised explosive device detonated in the ...

Bomb blast wounds five in Tajikistan nightclub

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a nightclub in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe overnight, wounding at least five people, security sources said on Monday.The blast followed an attack by suicide car bombers in another part of the Central Asian republic on Friday ...

Suicide blast at Tajikistan police base, 25 hurt

A suicide bomber in an explosives-packed car wounded at least 25 police officers in an attack on their base in Tajikistan Friday that left the building in flames, interior ministry officials said.The car slammed into a regional police headquarters in the northern ...
5 foreign terrorists killed in Tajikistan checkpoint clash near Afghan borderFive militants were killed in a gunfight at a remote military checkpoint near Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan, officials said Monday.Law enforcement agencies issued a joint statement Monday claiming the perpetrators of the ...