While most Tajiks in Syria are fighting alongside the Islamic State (IS) group, they are also present in at least two other Islamist factions in Syria, one of them in a leadership role.

Edward Lemon, a doctoral candidate at the University of Exeter who tracks Tajik militants in Syria and Iraq, talks to Under The Black Flag about whether the Islamic State threat to Central Asia is ...

The main suspects in a deadly assault near Moscow were from Tajikistan. Now many other Tajiks, who fill jobs in Russia’s wartime economy, are being deported and harassed.