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KABUL (TCA) — The militants of the Islamic State terrorist group have gone underground in Afghanistan, with the size of the organization's sleeper cells in the country currently amounting to less than 10,000, Mohammad Mohaqiq, the second deputy chief executive of Afghanistan, told Russia’s Sputnik news agency. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s top diplomat says 25 people have been killed in a recent prison riot in the city of Khujand in the first public comment by Tajik authorities about the violence in the country’s north, RFE/RL reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The main surviving suspect in an attack that killed four foreign cyclists on a mountain road in Tajikistan in July has been convicted of "murder with extreme violence" and other crimes and sentenced to life in prison, participants in the closed-door trial say, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The top U.S. diplomat in Tajikistan has met with officials from the Prosecutor General's Office and the Foreign Ministry to discuss deadly unrest at a prison in the northern city of Khujand, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — A 22-year-old English-language teacher, his four students, and five other young men have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on terrorism charges in Tajikistan, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — At least 50 inmates were killed in a prison riot in Tajikistan last week, sources have told RFE/RL's Tajik Service, doubling the death toll in violence that the government has said almost nothing about publicly. Continue reading
