Tajikistan Travel News

When Tajikistan announced that it was sending troops to the Gorno Badakhshan region, the site of a controversial military operation last year, it was bound to raise some suspicion: Tensions are still high in the region, and mistrust of the...

Tajikistan (AP) A BBC Radio correspondent has been detained in Tajikistan on suspicion of belonging to an extremist organization, police said Wednesday. Police spokesman Makhmadullo Asaduloyev said 50-year-old Urunboi Usmonov is suspected of being a member of Islamic movement Hizb-ut-Tahrir,...

ANY foreign man seeking to marry in Tajikistan will now have to provide an apartment for his bride, according to legal changes introduced today. The Central Asian republic's parliament also voted to introduce a requirement on foreign men to spend...

Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images The Nicolas Cage movie Lord of War may have been based loosely on the life of Viktor Bout, but little is known about the so-called "merchant of death". According to the alleged arm smuggler's five passports, he...