An uneasy air of anticipation has descended over Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region. The region, known commonly by its Russian-language acronym GBAO, was the scene of massive protests in ...

For 30 years, eastern Tajikistan has been either on the edge of unrest or the scene of fighting. Fighting broke out again on May 16. The death toll, in the dozens, may be the highest since the ...

The river near Kishti Poyan, bordering GBAO, May 2022. Credit: Oliver Reschreiter Amid the fervor surrounding China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Tajikistan stands out as a staunch supporter.

The Pamiris are a group of people who live in the remote region of the Pamir Mountains, which runs between South and Central Asia. The mountains crisscross five major Central Asian nations: Pakistan, ...

Imagine being a member of a little-known, persecuted minority attempting to flee your homeland, where you are at risk of being locked up or even killed, when few outsiders know or even care who you ...

New Zealand’s Trade Agreement With India Reflects a Foreign Policy Shift The lure of work in Ukraine’s war-torn territory has proven difficult to resist for Central Asian labor migrants, and Russian ...

In mid-May 2022, the Tajik government initiated a brutal crackdown on the people of eastern Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan region: the Pamiris. Pamiris are ethnically and culturally distinct from ...

The Pamir Mountains of northern Tajikistan are sometimes known as "the roof of the world." Isolated by the rugged terrain, the Pamiri people who live there have preserved some of the Zoroastrian ...