Military service is mandatory in Tajikistan for men aged between 18 and 27, with certain exemptions. It is not compulsory for women, although they can volunteer to join the army. Many young men ...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - Lt. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, Third Army/ARCENT Commanding General, conducted his first visit since taking command with key leaders here Nov. 20-21. During his visit ...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan – The Tajik government forces unleashed a massive operation Tuesday against a rebel group in apparent retaliation for the fatal stabbing of a top security official ...

KULOB, Tajikistan (May 17, 2010) -- Third Army Soldiers responded over the weekend to a request for assistance from the government of Tajikistan, due to flooding there which has killed at least 22 ...

Or else what? Tajikistan releases little information about its military, but the violent way it recruits does not give the impression this remote and corrupt former Soviet republic has a battle-ready ...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - The Tajik government forces unleashed a massive operation Tuesday against a rebel group in apparent retaliation for the fatal stabbing of a top security official ...

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow had organised additional supplies of weaponry and equipment to bolster Tajikistan's army. "We continue to train qualified Tajik military personnel.

DUSHANBE -- The Tajik Defense Ministry expects to deploy a new military unit to the mountainous Saghirdasht region of eastern Tajikistan, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported, citing a local official ...

Laborers and students from Tajikistan living in Russia are well used to suffering ... a cohort that numbers in the hundreds of thousands – to enlist in the army. Doing so could entail being sent to ...