Kidnapping, intimidation, and blackmail are just some of the means used to hit enlistment quotas. When conscription season comes around in Tajikistan...
Central Asia
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Tajikistan’s decision to ban Pamir Daily News, an independent news site that is one of the few sources of...
Concern grows that a plague of insects will devastate food supplies next year in the country’s ‘breadbasket’ region Afghanistan is facing a locust timebomb...
As fatalities mount and the disease spreads rapidly, health authorities are racing against time to contain the outbreak and protect the population from further...
The Institute for Economics and Peace has named Afghanistan as the least peaceful country in the world for the sixth consecutive year. In its 2023 Global...