Pyandzh, Tajikistan News

Tajikistan has closed all border-crossing points with Afghanistan due to a military operation to capture a former warlord, but NATO trucks carrying supplies to their forces are allowed to pass, a Tajik border official said on Friday.

Tajik security services and police have seized two escapees from the Dushanbe investigation ward of the National Security Committee in the Dzhomi district of the southern Khatlon region, a Tajik law enforcer told Itar-Tass. Both men are natives of the Pyandzh district and members of the anti-governmental armed group of former emergency situations ...

First Published: 13:36 IST Last Updated: 13:37 IST At least 20 Islamist militants and one border guard were killed earlier this week in a firefight along the volatile border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Tajik officials said on Saturday.